Round-up: Rare variants and large effect sizes

The most interesting articles that came to our attention this week

In Defence of Behavioral Genetics. Peter Visscher provides a commentary on three papers by Damien Morris, criticising the arguments of Eric Turkheimer and Paige Harden. Visscher praises Morris’s work, comparing anti-Behaviour Genetics activists at UCL and Cambridge to Trofim Lysenko in the Soviet Union. He also notes that both Turkheimer and Harden declined the invitation to respond to Morris in writing.