Sewing-Machine comments on Genes are overrated - Less Wrong

-11 Post author: taw 20 April 2011 12:03AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 20 April 2011 01:11:26AM 4 points [-]

Almost no genes correlating with anything interesting been found. This is totally crushing evidence. If genes were important, Bayesian surprise of this lack of results would be in the land of impossible.

How much work is "interesting" doing in "anything interesting"? They haven't found genes for breast cancer but they have found them for skin color.

Comment author: JoshuaZ 20 April 2011 03:43:00AM 6 points [-]

They haven't found genes for breast cancer but they have found them for skin color.

BRCA1 and BRCA2 are both genes where certain forms of them result in breast cancer being more likely, and we have a somewhat well understood mechanism for how they do this.