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pianoforte611 comments on When does heritable low fitness need to be explained? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: pianoforte611 10 June 2015 12:36:55AM 1 point [-]

I remember reading about schizophrenia being a group of similar of genetically distinct diseases. This is a paper on the subject. It also results in lowered fitness yet has a genetic component. It turns out that polygenetic traits can't be understood using simplistic theories of selection.