[aastronaut]

> If you had a list of all the genomes of all the people in the world, and all their phenotypes (height, eye color, hair type, etc), you could take all their genomes as input variables and treat all their phenotypes as output variables, and make embeddings or other models that mapped from genomes to phenotypes. The result would be a predictive model that could take a human genome, and spit out a prediction of what that person looks like and other details around them (up to the limits of heritability).

Would such a predictive model really be possible? As far as I'm aware there is contradicting research whether a specific phenotype distinctly originates from a SNP/genotype.

[dekhn]

I can't technically say with 100% confidence that it would be possible. It does seem extremely likely based on all the evidence I've seen over the past 30 years.

The model would be highly nonlinear and nonlocal, at the very least.