Original Article on Wired Magazine

wpautop enabled Many in the genetico-literary science world have been gnashing their teeth over a recent New York Times story that remarks the unremarkable: aStudy Says DNAs Power to Predict Illness Is Limited>. (The article elaborates on a Science paper,The Predictive Capacity of Personal Genome Sequencing.)Erika Check Hayden (a must-follow for good writing on genomics and genetics)rounded up the face-palmingin the genomics and genetics community. My favorite quick checkcomes from Razib Khan:Recall that height is ~90 percent heritable on the population level. But it turns out that the standard deviation of identical twin height differences is still ~35-40 percent that of random siblings! What I want to see next, an article in The New York ...(read more)