Article
Confounding Fuels Misinterpretation in Human Genetics
2023-11-03
Abstract excerpt
The scientific literature has seen a resurgence of interest in genetic influences on human behavior and socioeconomic outcomes. Such studies face the central difficulty of distinguishing possible causal influences, in particular genetic and non-genetic ones. When confounding between possible influences is not rigorously addressed, it invites over- and misinterpretation of data. We illustrate the breadth of this pr...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 944c98c8-b3fe-508a-b922-13f512c0e44b
- DOI
- 10.1101/2023.11.01.565061