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I’m in the middle of writing a grant<\/a>, so I’ll have to leave it as an exercise for the reader to think about the implications of genetic profiling of potential suicides, as hinted at in this story<\/a> over at Forbes. Six genes predict suicides among those with bipolar disorder. As attentive followers will guess, my criticism is not that such correlations are impossible\u2014it’s that they are inevitable.<\/p>\n

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Manet’s The Suicide<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hmm, possibly there’s a future piece on why a conservative money mag seems to be emerging as a bastion of the new genetic determinism…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m in the middle of writing a grant, so I’ll have to leave it as an exercise for the reader to think about the implications of genetic profiling of potential suicides, as hinted at in this story over at Forbes. Six genes predict suicides among those with bipolar disorder. 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