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Adorable-Breakfast t1_ir3wdrm wrote
Reply to comment by NakoL1 in How do scientists determine what genes are responsible for certain traits/attributes? by [deleted]
To add to that, it's been found that rather than depending strongly on a few genes, a lot of characteristics (e.g. personality traits, mental health conditions, etc.) depend weakly on many genes, as many as several thousand. Any single gene on its own may account for only a fraction of a percent of the total variance, which would've been undetectable until large enough data sets became available in recent years.
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