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    Educational Achievement and Intelligence
    Behavioral geneticist Robert Plomin on explaining genetic variance in intelligence, the Finnish educational model, and the probabilistic approach to genetic differences in children's abilities to learn
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    Genetics and Education
    Neuroscientist Michael Thomas on the heritability of intelligence, the predictive power of the DNA, and a reductionist explanation of children's educational outcomes
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    Biomarkers of Aging
    Biologist Tim Spector on the different ways of assessing biological age, twin studies, and the microbiome
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    Metabolic Phenotyping in Health and Disease
    Biochemist Ian Wilson on the interaction between genotype and phenotype, prediction of metabolic disease, and the analysis of the metabolites
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    Prevention of Diabetes
    Epidemologist Nick Wareham on how social and economic changes can contribute to the prevention of diabetes, the most balanced diet, and genetic predisposition to the disease
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    The Link between Obesity and Diabetes
    Epidemiologist Nick Wareham on metformin, preventive therapy of diabetes, and metabolism in obese people
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    Type 2 Diabetes
    Epidemologist Nick Wareham on the discovery of insulin, clinical diagnostic tests for diabetes, and the thrifty metabolism hypothesis
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    Huntington’s Disease
    Molecular Neurogeneticist David Rubinsztein on the Kennedy disease, CAG repeats, and autophagy
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    Cognitive Variability
    Neuroscientist Michael Thomas on differences between children, computational modeling, and the new skills that our species acquired
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    Twin Studies
    Genetic epidemiologist Tim Spector on the genetic determinism, origins of addictions and diseases, and differences between twins
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