Polygenic traits and the distribution of effect sizes: years of education from Rietveld et al (2013)
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It is often said that polygenic traits are based on tons of causal variants each of which has a very small effect size. What is less often discussed is the distribution of these effect sizes, although this has some implications. The first statistical importance is that we may want to modify our
Polygenic traits and the distribution of effect sizes: years of education from Rietveld et al (2013)
Polygenic traits and the distribution of…
Polygenic traits and the distribution of effect sizes: years of education from Rietveld et al (2013)
It is often said that polygenic traits are based on tons of causal variants each of which has a very small effect size. What is less often discussed is the distribution of these effect sizes, although this has some implications. The first statistical importance is that we may want to modify our