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Alexander MacInnis's avatar

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.

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Saurabh's avatar

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.

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Jenn Dowd, PhD's avatar

Yes, it is sus for so many reasons!

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