On Omnigenetics: Futile?

Posted: 7/5/2018

Trigger

Recently, I read this article in the Quanta Magazine: Theory Suggests That All Genes Affect Every Complex Trait. Here is the full text of what I believe is the underlying scientific article: An Expanded View of Complex Traits: From Polygenic to Omnigenic

Omni

If you do not know much about a subject, but you want to impress, then use the prefix omni. Sounds omnipotent, but it is probably more impotent than thought.

Since environmentalism became en vogue in the 1960s and 1970s, we were to believe that everything depends on everything. From Chaos theory, we learnt that a single flap of a butterfly wing in China (or was it a tipped over rice bag) can trigger a hurricane over the Carribean Ocean (to paraphrase; an exaggeration).

Whether this kind of thinking advances science is the question.