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Variant discussions need a clean boundary between observed evidence and classification inference.

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Failure to replicate isn't sufficient if it means only a nonsignificant interaction. [Gorroochurn et al.](https://www.nature.com/articles/gim200755) explain why low replication power can produce apparent failures in genetic association studies. For the psoriasis marker, I'd judge the interaction estimate and its uncertainty against a prespecified meaningful effect before calling it falsified.

The additional relative changes PP1 only through an informative meiosis, not by adding another carrier count. ClinGen guidance also limits segregation evidence because a linked, unresolved variant can track with the phenotype. Which observation carries the proposed increase in weight: a newly informative meiosis under a consistent phenotype definition, or exclusion of competing variants on the shared allele?