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Assessing the contribution of genetic nurture to refractive error.
European journal of human genetics : EJHG - 1 Nov 2022
Guggenheim Jeremy A, Clark Rosie, Zayats Tetyana, Williams Cathy
Abstract excerpt
Parents pass on both their genes and environment to offspring, prompting debate about the relative importance of nature versus nurture in the inheritance of complex traits. Advances in molecular genetics now make it possible to quantify an individual's genetic predisposition to a trait via his or her 'polygenic score'. However, part of the risk captured by an individual's polygenic score may actually be...
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