Seminar SGDP Centre KCL Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience with Zhikun Li, Yujing Lin and Vid Mlakar on Thursday 13th June 2024, 10:00-11:00am.

Presenting my work on predicting psychopathology, cognitive, and anthropometric traits in the population and within families at #WCPG2024

Seminar SGDP Centre KCL Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience with Yujing Lin, Iona Pickett and Alice Quinton on Thursday 19th June 2025, 10:00-11:00am.

Oof. Polygenic scores for IQ lose 75% of their explained variance when adding family controls, even worse than the attenuation for Educational Attainment. These are the scores Silicon Valley is using to select embryos 😬. A few thoughts on this study ...

A new article in Intelligence & Cognitive Abilities by Yujing Lin & her coauthors explores the power of DNA-based scores for predicting cognitive & educational outcomes. The authors found that about half of the predictive power was due to differences between families and half was individual