Thursday, June 28, 2012

Plenty of room at the top

Feynman once said there's Plenty of room at the bottom (nanotechnology).

In the context of human genetics, it's clear there's plenty of room at the top -- possibly as much as +30 SDs based on existing variance in the human population! (Compare to the result of selection in maize.) This is the last slide from my BGA 2012 talk:



At some point I may be able to post the audio, as all the talks were recorded. The slides may be a bit hard to understand on their own.

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