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Originally Posted by Trexller
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hey I absolutely agree with embryonic genetic testing
it's been done in secret for at least a decade and should become mainstream
obv we don't wanna start engineering super-humans (yet)
but we should totally be fertiziling a few hundred eggs in a lab, then choosing the ones with a favorable genetic profile
nature has not exactly been the ideal arbiter of viable humans.
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Geneticists have greeted this with concern, in large part because of polygenic risk scores to assess an embryo’s chance of disease.
Example, heart disease runs in families, but only in exceptional cases can the inherited risk be traced to a single gene. In fact, hundreds to thousands of genes each contribute in a small way.
Polygenic risk scores attempt to sum the outcome by observing which patterns of variation in a genome are associated with a the probability of having the disease.
Basically we shouldn't be there just yet... even if some agencies I won't mention promote it.
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