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This sort of approach is known as Genome Wide Association study, finding the correlation of hundreds or thousands of genes that will predict a trait: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genome-wide_association_study

If you are interested in the topic, I recommend https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blueprint_(book)

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Interesting. The direct correlations seem to be weak, though.

I wonder if biology will turn out to have something comparable to the "hidden units" of machine learning, where less specific inputs from DNA combine in some way to produce intermediate - somethings? - that key specific functions. Probably something that will be explored over the next few decades.

Gay-WAS

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