Gloomy Prospects and Roller Coasters: Finding Coherence in Genome-Wide Association Studies

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Philosophy of Science 87 (5):1084-1095 (2020)
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We address Turkheimer’s argument that genome-wide association studies of behaviors and psychiatric traits will fail to produce coherent explanations. We distinguish two major sources of potential i...

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Carl F. Craver
Washington University in St. Louis
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