Polygene risk scores and randomized experiments

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences 46:e198 (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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Lauren N. Ross
University of California, Irvine
James Woodward
University of Pittsburgh
Kenneth Kendler
Virginia Commonwealth University

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