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by bonsai_spool 110 days ago
> In the land of drug development [...]

Fine, but this is the land of genome-wide association studies. I am unaware of any overlap, considering that such 'GWAS' studies require tens or hundreds of thousands of participants to get any definitive signal... Such work is the nature of statistical genetics.

> So I question whether they might be fitting a model to noise here.

On what basis?