Science 2.0: There Is No Magic Genetic Bullet For Complex Traits, But Here Are 18 Approaches
Thursday, September 18, 2014 - 11:02
in Biology & Nature
Anyone who tells you they have a super food or a potion to impact a complex trait is sellinf you something. Life is rarely simple. The things we care about most, from crop yields to disease risks, are instead "complex traits." Human height is a textbook example of a complex trait while attributes like risk for a particular human disease are shaped by multiple genetic and environmental influences. The value of the Science 2.0 approach, and the wealth of Big Data that geneticists now have available, is in finding the genes involved and then quantifying their importance when other circumstances are factored in. read more