Going a step further: calling risk scores “polygenic” demonstrates ignorance about what the word means. “Polygenic” means that the disease or condition is caused entirely by a set of genes acting together. In reality, almost every disease or condition depends on non-genetic factors, aka the environment, and is also influenced somewhat by genes. That’s called “multifactorial”. The word doesn’t sound as cool. Scientific honesty is more important than cool sounding words.
I read about it few months back, at that time my stance was it's ethically wrong what company is trying to sell. We're trying to make robots I feel, what If parents are not satisfied with child then and too many loopholes.
Yes, Jenn's article is right.
Going a step further: calling risk scores “polygenic” demonstrates ignorance about what the word means. “Polygenic” means that the disease or condition is caused entirely by a set of genes acting together. In reality, almost every disease or condition depends on non-genetic factors, aka the environment, and is also influenced somewhat by genes. That’s called “multifactorial”. The word doesn’t sound as cool. Scientific honesty is more important than cool sounding words.
I read about it few months back, at that time my stance was it's ethically wrong what company is trying to sell. We're trying to make robots I feel, what If parents are not satisfied with child then and too many loopholes.
Yes, it is sus for so many reasons!