CarlShulman comments on SRG 4: Biological Cognition, BCIs, Organizations - Less Wrong

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Comment author: CarlShulman 07 October 2014 11:32:24PM *  3 points [-]

You can deal with epistasis using the techniques Hsu discusses and big datasets, and in any case additive variance terms account for most of the heritability even without doing that. There is much more about epistasis (and why it is of secondary importance for characterizing the variation) in the linked preprint.