I think you should mention that traits tend to be correlated. Genomic Prediction has a company policy of not telling you the polygenic scores for height, education attainment, or even cosmetic traits like the eye color of the embryo (this last one can be nearly 100% accurate). Understandably, they don't want to be accused of being an eugenics shop. However, there's strong correlation between height, education attainment, and lower mental disease risk. If you optimize for lower disease risk and height, you will get high education attainment as a by product.... (read more)
There seem to be some disease genes correlated with higher IQ. There's speculation about whether genetic conditions in Ashkenazi Jews cause higher intelligence, but there's also a gene that causes blindness in middle age that also appears to raise intelligence by enhancing neuronal signaling.
In general, selective breeding of animals for various traits have often managed to produce animals that excel in that trait but are noticeably less healthy overall. At this point, I don't think actually know which genes are tradeoffs and which are just flaws - including genes that trade off against something that doesn't matter as much in the modern world, such as resistance to famine conditions or infections treatable by antibiotics. We certainly can try to weigh the odds and try to avoid the cases where things have Obviously Gone Wrong, but I reserve the right to worry about removing genes from the human gene pool whose function we don't understand.
5TekhneMakre
Hm. I wonder if there are people who simultaneously say that genes don't affect behavior, and also say that genetic screening is bad. Seems like a near-contradiction, but I suspect there are such people.
2GeneSmith
You're right. I'll edit the original post. I originally didn't include it because i couldn't quantify it that well, but it's worth at least mentioning.
Again, if you read the post I believe there are probably groups doing this right now. If you're interested in using the service right now you can talk to Jonathan Anomaly as he seems to know how to get in contact with them.
I think you should mention that traits tend to be correlated. Genomic Prediction has a company policy of not telling you the polygenic scores for height, education attainment, or even cosmetic traits like the eye color of the embryo (this last one can be nearly 100% accurate). Understandably, they don't want to be accused of being an eugenics shop. However, there's strong correlation between height, education attainment, and lower mental disease risk. If you optimize for lower disease risk and height, you will get high education attainment as a by product.... (read more)