Rebecca Meyer-Schuman
@rmschu.bsky.social
Postdoc in Zoghbi Lab at Baylor College of Medicine | Interested in gene regulation, neurogenetics, variant interpretation, and disease mechanism | Opinions are my own
Reposted by Rebecca Meyer-Schuman
If someone you know buys into claims about "genetic optimization" of embryos using polygenic scores of cognition, just send them our 2024 paper on Beethoven & musicality. We wrote it to help communicate limits of individual-level genetic predictions & complexity of links between DNA & behaviour. 🧪👇
Notes from Beethoven’s genome
Wesseldijk et al. compare the genomic information collected from Ludwig van Beethoven
with population-based datasets used to quantify musical achievement.
www.cell.com
August 7, 2025 at 11:10 AM
If someone you know buys into claims about "genetic optimization" of embryos using polygenic scores of cognition, just send them our 2024 paper on Beethoven & musicality. We wrote it to help communicate limits of individual-level genetic predictions & complexity of links between DNA & behaviour. 🧪👇
Reposted by Rebecca Meyer-Schuman
The whole point of funding research is that it may benefit everyone and as the population ages, it will likely save someone close to you (ahem Russ Vought!). But you cannot afford to fund the research yourself unless you’re an oligarch. If there is no social compact for this what even is the point?
June 5, 2025 at 6:05 PM
The whole point of funding research is that it may benefit everyone and as the population ages, it will likely save someone close to you (ahem Russ Vought!). But you cannot afford to fund the research yourself unless you’re an oligarch. If there is no social compact for this what even is the point?