Our genetic heritage is not a blueprint or an algorithm, as many biologists have imagined, but something else entirely.

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A comprehensive map of genetic associations, colocalizations, and rare variant analysis across thousands of traits and molecular measurements.

Handedness (i.e., the preference to use either the left or the right hand for fine motor tasks) is a widely investigated trait. Handedness heritability is consistently estimated to be 25%. After decad...

We wish to answer this question: If you observe a ‘significant’ p-value after doing a single unbiased experiment, what is the probability that your result is a false positive? The weak evidence provid...

Can elite athletes integrate emergent information to improve performance?Joseph Baker, a professor at the Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education (KPE) and Tanenbaum chair in sport science, spor...

The knowledge in our brains, not in our phones, is necessary for creative thinking and the pursuit of truth.

This is an opinionated but hopefully beginner-friendly discussion of heritability: what is it, what do we know about it, and how we should think about it? I structure my discussion around five context...

A new paper just out in Nature , by Peter Visscher and colleagues (including bio-ethicist Julian Salvulescu) explores the idea of polygenic...

A new report on pitching injuries released Tuesday by the commissioner's office confirms much of what we already suspected about the root causes of the sharp rise in elbow and shoulder injuries. It al...

“Did you find it convincing?” That’s what one of my genetics professors used to ask us, a small group of undergraduates who blinked in respo...