{"id":41783,"date":"2011-06-09T01:20:55","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T09:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=12221"},"modified":"2011-06-09T01:20:55","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T09:20:55","slug":"genetics-existed-before-omics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/09\/genetics-existed-before-omics\/","title":{"rendered":"Genetics existed before -omics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the post below, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2011\/06\/moderate-marginal-value-to-genomics\/\">Moderate marginal value to genomics<\/a>, I left some things implicit. It turns out that this was an ill-considered decision. In reality my comments were simply more cryptic and opaque than implicit. This is pretty obvious because <strong>even those readers who are biologists didn&#8217;t seem to catch what I had <em>assumed<\/em> would be obvious in the thrust of my argument.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The point in the broadest sense is that <strong>DNA and genomics are not magical. Genetics existed before either of them.<\/strong> Understanding the physical basis of genetics has certainly been incredibly fruitful, and genomics has altered the playing field in many ways. But there was a broad understanding of genetics <em>before <\/em>DNA and genomics, both in a Mendelian sense and in the area of biometrics and quantitative genetics. In the earlier post I indicated that the tools for predictions of adult traits due to the effect of genes have been around for a long time:<strong> our family history.<\/strong> By this, I mean that a lot of traits of interest are substantially <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Heritability\">heritable<\/a>. A great deal of the variation within the population can be explained by variation of genes in the population, as <em>inferred<\/em> by patterns of correlation &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the post below, Moderate marginal value to genomics, I left some things implicit. It turns out that this was an ill-considered decision. In reality my comments were simply more cryptic and opaque than implicit. This is pretty obvious because even th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,365,1432,4,1322,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-behavior-genetics","category-futurism","category-gattaca","category-genetics","category-genetics-of-height","category-genomics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41783"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41888,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41783\/revisions\/41888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}