Sunday, April 28, 2019
More pop/strat discussion related to polygenic scores
This article in Quanta magazine highlights a couple of recent studies in which population stratification issues are giving artificially inflated polygenic score results that don't subsequently have validity when looking at even a relatively similar population, much less diverse populations. These were for height, which seems like the most obvious candidate for a genetic trait for which one could get a valid polygenic score, but they had to walk back previous claims. If they can't get if for height, one should immediately ask why anyone would take such a score seriously for say, depression, or "educational attainment." They are putting a lot of time and effort into these studies and the best they can say to date is that maybe some of the correlations are valid, but pop/strat has not been ruled out as the exclusive cause of all their SNP correlations and subsequent polygenic scores.
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