the field of genetics moves, this necessitates having collaborators who are tied more centrally to the world of genetics, and/or (for the younger generation of social scientists with interest in this area) to obtain focused training in genetics, ideally through a post-doctoral training experience. With ~25,000 genes in the human genome2, thousands of genetic association papers published, and GWAS papers being turned out every day, it impossible to believe that the handful of “usual suspects” are the only genes of interest for developmental outcomes. As large-scale gene finding studies continue to report associations with new and novel genes of interest, these genes too deserve further study by developmental scientist to delineate the trajectories of risk associated with these genes.
