The age of prenatal genetic screening is here (let’s call it that!)
In the spring of 2010, I went to the studios of KQED in San Francisco to record an interview with a radio show on the BBC about PGD. Preimplantation genetic diagnosis. I haven’t thought much about the issue in the near ten years since then. Which in a personal sense certainly reflects my luck and […]
The age of prenatal genetic screening is here (let’s call it that!)
In the spring of 2010, I went to the studios of KQED in San Francisco to record an interview with a radio show on the BBC about PGD. Preimplantation genetic diagnosis. I haven’t thought much about the issue in the near ten years since then. Which in a personal sense certainly reflects my luck and […]
Release the UK Biobank! (the prediction of height edition)
There’s so much science coming out of the UK Biobank it’s not even funny. It’s like getting the palantír or something. Anyway, a preprint, submitted for your approval. A vision of things to come? Accurate Genomic Prediction Of Human Height: We construct genomic predictors for heritable and extremely complex human quantitative traits (height, heel bone density, […]