Ancestry may confound genetic machine learning: Candidate-gene prediction of opioid use disorder as an example

AS Hatoum, FR Wendt, M Galimberti… - Drug and alcohol …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Machine learning (ML) models are beginning to proliferate in psychiatry,
however machine learning models in psychiatric genetics have not always accounted for …

Shared Futures or Financialized Futures: Polygenic Screening, Reproductive Justice, and the Radical Charge of Collective Care

J Denbow, TL Spira - Signs: Journal of Women in Culture …, 2023 - journals.uchicago.edu
Polygenic screening is a new form of embryo testing that assesses the probability that an
embryo will later develop a wide range of health conditions. This technology purports to help …

ISPD 2021 debate‐All in vitro fertilization cycles should involve pre‐implantation genetic testing to improve fetal health and pregnancy outcomes

L Wilkins‐Haug, DJ Amor, J Savulescu - Prenatal Diagnosis, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
For 3 decades, couples at increased risk for a genetic disorder have been offered
preimplantation genetic testing (PGT). Simultaneously, PGT for aneuploidy (PGT‐A) to …

Germline gene editing: the gender issues

I de Miguel Beriain, EP Ellacuria… - Cambridge Quarterly of …, 2023 - cambridge.org
Human germline gene editing constitutes an extremely promising technology; at the same
time, however, it raises remarkable ethical, legal, and social issues. Although many of these …

GWAS deems parents guilty by association

A Harpak, MD Edge - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Almost 150 y ago, Galton (1) pitted “nature” against “nurture.” In asking whether our
biological or environmental inheritance is more important in shaping our traits, Galton …

Perspectives of preimplantation genetic testing patients in Belgium on the ethics of polygenic embryo screening

M Siermann, JR Vermeesch, T Raivio, A Vanhie… - Reproductive …, 2024 - Elsevier
Research question What are the perspectives of preimplantation genetic testing patients in
Belgium on the ethics of preimplantation genetic testing for polygenic risk scoring (PGT-P) …

Making sense of noise: Introducing students to stochastic processes in order to better understand biological behaviors

MW Klymkowsky - arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.04739, 2023 - arxiv.org
Biological systems are characterized by the ubiquitous roles of weak, that is, non-covalent
molecular interactions, small, often very small, numbers of specific molecules per cell, and …

Reply to Letter by Tellier et al.,'Scientific refutation of ESHG statement on embryo selection'

F Forzano, O Antonova, A Clarke, G de Wert… - European Journal of …, 2023 - nature.com
We would like to thank the authors for their letter addressing our recent policy paper on PGT-
P, as this provides us with an additional opportunity to clarify our position. Tellier et al …

Nurtured Genetics: Prenatal Testing and the Anchoring of Genetic Expectancies

R Furrer, S Carmi, T Lencz… - The American Journal of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
If polygenic risk scores for traits are to be provided to parents before—as opposed to after—
a child is born, these scores will provide the very first units of information upon which parents …

Sibling Variation in Phenotype and Genotype: Polygenic Trait Distributions and DNA Recombination Mapping with UK Biobank and IVF Family Data

L Lello, M Hsu, E Widen, TG Raben - medRxiv, 2022 - medrxiv.org
We use UK Biobank and a unique IVF family dataset (including genotyped embryos) to
investigate sibling variation in both phenotype and genotype. We compare phenotype …