Two posts you should read
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008Here’s two posts on Genetic Future that I think you should read:
- The elusive genetics of bipolar disorder — a depressing story about the genome-wide association search for bipolar disorder genes
- Height and hypertension genes in Nature Genetics — a depressing story about the genome-wide association search for height genes
Both posts tell stories of how genome wide association searches are harder than we hoped. A post I’ve linked to before — Why do genome-wide scans fail? — tries to explain why.
I might return to the height stuff later — in our group we have analysed the DeCODE dataset using our multi-locus methods — but I’ll have to leave that for later, ’cause I am late for work now…