Polygene risk scores and randomized experiments.

Behav Brain Sci

Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA,

Published: September 2023


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We explore Madole & Harden's (2022) suggestion that single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)/trait correlations are analogous to randomized experiments and thus can be given a causal interpretation.

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