{"id":4084,"date":"2010-02-03T14:02:02","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T12:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=4084"},"modified":"2010-02-03T14:02:02","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T12:02:02","slug":"101-for-the-victorian-method","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2010\/02\/101-for-the-victorian-method\/","title":{"rendered":"10:1 for the Victorian method"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had Aulchenko here a year a go or so &#8211; now here comes his new paper <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/ejhg\/journal\/v17\/n8\/abs\/ejhg20095a.html\">Predicting human height by Victorian and genomic methods<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIn a population-based study of 5748 people, we find that a 54-loci genomic profile explained 4\u00e2\u20ac\u201c6% of the sex- and age-adjusted height variance, and had limited ability to discriminate tall\/short people, as characterized by the area under the receiver-operating characteristic curve (AUC). In a family-based study of 550 people, with both parents having height measurements, we find that the Galtonian mid-parental prediction method explained 40% of the sex- and age-adjusted height variance.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>yea, yea.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 06.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had Aulchenko here a year a go or so &#8211; now here comes his new paper Predicting human height by Victorian and genomic methods In a population-based study of 5748 people, we find that a 54-loci genomic profile explained 4\u00e2\u20ac\u201c6% of the sex- and age-adjusted height variance, and had limited ability to discriminate tall\/short &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2010\/02\/101-for-the-victorian-method\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">10:1 for the Victorian method<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2585],"class_list":["post-4084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics-biology","tag-gwas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4085,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4084\/revisions\/4085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}