You say “see below for how to get access to these predictors”. Am I understanding right that the advice you’re referring to is to contact Jonathan and see if he knows?
Yes. My understanding is he knows some groups that have a working IQ predictor and are accepting customers.
I heard a rumor that you can get IQ out of standard predictors like LifeView by looking at “risk of cognitive disability”; since cognitive disability is just IQ under a certain bar, this is covertly predicting IQ. Do you know anything about whether this is true?
Genomic Prediction no longer offers an intellectual disability predictor. They got huge blowback when they first released that predictor and removed it from their traits as a result.
I do not believe that you’d expect to get much of an IQ bump from selecting against disease risk either. My guess is less than 1 point from 10 achievable births.
Sorry, I should really go back and edit the post to make this clearer. To the best of my knowledge Genomic Prediction (and possibly Orchid) are the only companies that can genotype your embryos with reasonably good quality and will give you the raw data. This is the part that (probably) costs about $1000 + 400 per embryo.
You then have to take that raw data to a third-party service (probably one of the groups that Jonathan knows) and ask them to predict the IQ and/or other traits. I don’t know anything about the groups, but I’d be shocked if they’re doing this for free. So they will charge an additional amount, which is where my estimate of $20k came in. I don’t actually know anything about their prices so that’s a complete shot in the dark for what it costs.
But given it’s a low-volume service at this point, my guess is it’s quite expensive.
Yes. My understanding is he knows some groups that have a working IQ predictor and are accepting customers.
Genomic Prediction no longer offers an intellectual disability predictor. They got huge blowback when they first released that predictor and removed it from their traits as a result.
I do not believe that you’d expect to get much of an IQ bump from selecting against disease risk either. My guess is less than 1 point from 10 achievable births.
Sorry, I should really go back and edit the post to make this clearer. To the best of my knowledge Genomic Prediction (and possibly Orchid) are the only companies that can genotype your embryos with reasonably good quality and will give you the raw data. This is the part that (probably) costs about $1000 + 400 per embryo.
You then have to take that raw data to a third-party service (probably one of the groups that Jonathan knows) and ask them to predict the IQ and/or other traits. I don’t know anything about the groups, but I’d be shocked if they’re doing this for free. So they will charge an additional amount, which is where my estimate of $20k came in. I don’t actually know anything about their prices so that’s a complete shot in the dark for what it costs.
But given it’s a low-volume service at this point, my guess is it’s quite expensive.
Thanks!