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#353 - Robert Plomin - How Do Genes Influence Our Behaviour?

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Is There a Cure?

If you wanted to edit the genes to make someone a thing, if you wanted to try and manifest a trait, you don't just get to go and poke one of them. And I'm guessing that the 10% that you're now able to predict BMI in life is because you've managed to bundle together around about one fifth of the genes that are responsible for causing that weight.

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