What are your views on prenatal screening?
What are your views on prenatal screening?
Thomas Fisher
Julian Walker
Should be provided free of charge to every citizen because the benefits pay for themselves
Owen Reed
I think it already is
Andrew Walker
Soon they're going to genetically test embryos to determine health and cosmetic traits (facial features, pigmentation, height, etc.).
Colton Thomas
I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT THAT IS
OP BTFO
Jose Ross
Most popular features will be height and IQ selection I think. Siblings only differ by like 12 IQ points on average though and only around 3 points of that will be due to common variants that PRS could capture.
Angel Johnson
>Most popular features will be height and IQ selection
Facial features and health outcomes also seem pretty compelling honestly.
>and only around 3 points of that will be due to common variants that PRS could capture.
There's been some progress, I think Stephen HSU said their IQ correlations are about 0.4 (equivalent to SAT), compared to 0.6 for height.
Caleb Rivera
I don't think Medicare covers fancy shit like cffDNA high throughout shotgun sequencing though. Just basic labs and screening measures
Evan Baker
*medicaid
God dammit
Samuel Torres
>There's been some progress, I think Stephen HSU said their IQ correlations are about 0.4 (equivalent to SAT), compared to 0.6 for height.
Neat. IVF cycle costs will remain a limiting factor of embryo selection (and IQ gains) until this industry really takes off and scales up though.
Andrew Young
I told my molecular genetics professor about Stephen Hsu's superbaby ambitions and he didn't believe me lol.
Evan Ward
Well he said we're several decades off at the very least.
Jordan Morgan
Apparently embryo selection can lead to a 24.3 point inrease in IQ warosu.org
Jaxon Davis
I'm a little more optimistic but I basically agree with that forecast. Of course we could have done it starting in like 1920 if we had been willing to countenance coarser methods (and if eugenics hadn't been hijacked by tribalistic morons).
Luke Cook
>1000 embryo
Yeah no shit lol. I don't disagree but we must remember how prohibitively expensive this would be if attempted today. 20 years down the line? Sure.
Chase Gomez
Is genetic screening for embryos even available now? Stephen Hsu is the head of a startup that plans to do that, might be a good idea to invest in that (dunno if it's public or not).
Aaron Sanchez
Yeah it's called Genomic Prediction and their HQ is half an hour from my house lol. Here are some of the services they offer presently.
Hunter Sullivan
Nice, I wonder why they don't mention that they can predict cosmetic traits.. are they a private company? I would invest in them. Could all come crashing down though, some people might think this is immoral. Either the selecting embryos for specific traits part or the throwing out embryos part.
Cameron Parker
Embryos get trashed all the time in the IVF industry anyway. More about the company:
Jack Rodriguez
Genes like height, skin tones, IQ et al are multifactorial (many genes and systems involved) so we have little understanding of them. Prenatal testing is used for things like downs because it's easy to find or ones which are single gene aberrations.
People who don't know this shit always exaggerate what can be done at the moment. I blame popsci.
Your professor is smart
t. Junior Doctor
John Barnes
i once stated i'm pro-selective abortions (based on health of fetus, not race and shit) and got told it's muh cruel eugenics
guess we've gone so backwards that purposefully creating humans who will suffer is humane, kek
Hunter Smith
>so we have little understanding of them
Eduyears PRS from EA3 explains like 15% of the variance on UK high school standardized exit exams. Genomic Prediction, a US company, will give you a PRS report from embryo biopsies that includes a risk score for polygenic intellectual disability (i.e. disability not due to aneuploidy or variant of large effect such as PKU). Basically they just tell you if your embryo biopsies are in the far left tail of the PRS distribution (corresponding w/ mental retardation).