> or example, mutations in almost 300 genes have been identified as indicating a risk that a person will develop schizophrenia.
> It’s therefore a huge oversimplification, notes Ball, to say that genes cause this trait or that disease.
That sounds as though the genes do cause the disease, at least sometimes.
This article - whose author seems to have mind-melded with the book itself, providing no objectivity I could discern - seems to be arguing against a straw man. No one thinks that it's only genes that cause disease. If I catch covid, it wasn't my genes. If I get type 2 diabetes, it (probably) wasn't my genes.
> It’s therefore a huge oversimplification, notes Ball, to say that genes cause this trait or that disease.
That sounds as though the genes do cause the disease, at least sometimes.
This article - whose author seems to have mind-melded with the book itself, providing no objectivity I could discern - seems to be arguing against a straw man. No one thinks that it's only genes that cause disease. If I catch covid, it wasn't my genes. If I get type 2 diabetes, it (probably) wasn't my genes.