"Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are" - Robert Plomin

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Robert Plomin is one of the good guys, and this book is apparently a summing up, for a general audience, of his life work. It has just arrived and is on the stack.

Meanwhile Dr James Thompson of UCL has an excellent and detailed chapter-by-chapter review, from which this short excerpt.

"Chapter 11 is about the development of genome-wide association studies. Chapter 12 is a very substantial one about genetic prediction. Chapter 12 is Plomin’s real coming out: he reveals his polygenic scores for all to see. Naturally, this is a teaching opportunity, explaining the insights and the limitations of such measures. Figs 6 and 7 are worth showing again and again, if only to explain polygenic scores and their overlaps, and the fact that they provide probabilistic estimates, not certainties."

Greg Cochran has written a review at Quillette, "Forget Nature Versus Nurture. Nature Has Won".

And Toby Young, also at Quillette: "Is Sociogenomics Racist?".  No, he argues.

I'm looking forward to reading and learning. Update: here's my review.