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How population stratification led to a decade of sensationally false genetic findings
Stratification makes environments look like genes
Mar 28
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Sasha Gusev
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February 2025
A FAQ on federal research cuts
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Feb 20
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Sasha Gusev
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A FAQ on federal research cuts
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January 2025
On abhorrent science and the weaponization of genomic data
How to balance open data sharing and public responsibility
Jan 12
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Sasha Gusev
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On abhorrent science and the weaponization of genomic data
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December 2024
What happens to heritable conditions across generations?
some counterintuitive properties of the polygenic liability threshold model
Dec 26, 2024
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Sasha Gusev
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What happens to heritable conditions across generations?
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A Critical Introduction to Behavioral Genetics: Q&A with Sasha Gusev
Sasha Gusev is a statistical geneticist and an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
Published on Psychiatry at the Margins
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Dec 14, 2024
November 2024
Distinguishing real from invented problems with the NIH
How does the NIH work and where does it work well?
Nov 24, 2024
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Sasha Gusev
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Book Review: Eric Turkheimer's "Understanding the Nature-Nurture Debate"
Or, some thoughts on The Gloomy Prospect and the Gloomy Present
Nov 16, 2024
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Sasha Gusev
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Book Review: Eric Turkheimer's "Understanding the Nature-Nurture Debate"
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Where are the (less recent) selective sweeps?
A murky picture of selection in the past 50,000 years from ancient and modern DNA
Nov 2, 2024
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Sasha Gusev
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October 2024
What are we learning from the genes of siblings?
Family-based genetic analyses come of age
Oct 13, 2024
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Sasha Gusev
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What are we learning from the genes of siblings?
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September 2024
No, heritability will not tell you anything about education policy
Or: Variance components are not a substitute for mechanisms
Sep 21, 2024
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Sasha Gusev
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No, heritability will not tell you anything about education policy
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Where are the recent selective sweeps?
How do we make sense of the surprisingly few loci under selection in the past 5,000 years?
Sep 14, 2024
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Sasha Gusev
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Comments on: No, intelligence is not like height
Some feedback and responses
Sep 2, 2024
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Sasha Gusev
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