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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You’d be an idiot to spend that kind of money especially given you are starting with a low IQ. [/quote]

Clearly there are a lot of other “idiots” that disagree with this statement. There are already a few hundred to a few thousand people that [b]have done this (for polygenic disease risk)[/b] in the US. There are at multiple companies in the (Orchid, Genomic Prediction, Myome, etc.) that offer probabilistic disease risk scores for IVF. Other people are doing this already and there is a risk that families who don’t do it will fall behind within in a couple generations. [/quote]

You absolute simpleton.  Disease risk is not the same as predicting IQ, so no: there are not a few thousand people that have done "this."

You sound like the perfect customer for what they're selling, so go buy it.  But don't kid yourself that the unanimous consensus here that you're being scammed and this is not worth $40k even if it could be proved accurate is a sign that everyone but you lives in the Dark Ages or cannot understand the benefits as they've been explained to you (and eagerly swallowed).  You're just a mark with extra money, which is everyone's favorite kind of mark.[/quote]

The genetic architecture for Heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and IQ are all similar. These characteristics are partly attributable to thousands of additive genetic variants across the genome. The IQ predictor does not work as well as many disease predictors yet, because we don’t have any large datasets accessible to researchers with millions of people that have cognitive ability tests along with DNA data. We have this in spades for disease risks models though.  [b]Once this data is available genetic selection will work equally well if not better for IQ models because this trait has higher genetic heritability than heart disease or type 2 diabetes.[/b] [/quote]

OP, it sounds like you’re a potential investor/employee of one of these companies posing as a would-be customer. Either way, the “Reputable researchers don’t want to be involved” line you’ve heard is bs. A few academics may hesitate, but there will always be talented peopls ready to jump on a likely moneymaker.

As for the bolded, this is a big if. Researchers haven’t found similar data for autism despite tons of funding, and IQ is a lot more like autism than heart disease.

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They have smaller datasets right now. The best existing model today explains around 8% of the total variance in IQ. It will approach a level close to the 40% height number once there is a high quality dataset with a few million people. [/quote]

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