How much is nature vs nurture?
Dec 05, 2025•8 min
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Episode description
Everything from your height to your heart disease risk can be determined by your genes and your environment.
A major study looked at 34 characteristics and diseases to ask, how much can genetics determine?
In some cases the environment – where you live, how you live and what you eat – had more sway than previously thought.
Guest/s
- Professor Loic Yengo, group leader at the Statistical Genomics Laboratory at the University of Queensland
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