Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA, USA.
Behav Brain Sci. 2023 Sep 11;46:e206. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X23000833.
We received 23 spirited commentaries on our target article from across the disciplines of philosophy, economics, evolutionary genetics, molecular biology, criminology, epidemiology, and law. We organize our reply around three overarching questions: (1) What is a cause? (2) How are randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and within-family genome-wide association studies (GWASs) alike and unalike? (3) Is behavior genetics a qualitatively different enterprise? Throughout our discussion of these questions, we advocate for the idea that behavior genetics shares many of the same pitfalls and promises as environmentally oriented research, medical genetics, and other arenas of the social and behavioral sciences.
我们收到了来自哲学、经济学、进化遗传学、分子生物学、犯罪学、流行病学和法律等学科的 23 篇关于我们目标文章的精彩评论。我们围绕三个总体问题组织了我们的回复：（1）什么是原因？（2）随机对照试验（RCT）和家系全基因组关联研究（GWAS）有何相似之处和不同之处？（3）行为遗传学是一种性质不同的事业吗？在讨论这些问题的过程中，我们主张行为遗传学与环境导向的研究、医学遗传学以及社会和行为科学的其他领域一样，存在许多相同的陷阱和前景。
