Biometricians vs. Mendelians

Great post over at the Biochemist Blog: Biometricians vs Mendelians: What a century old debate ago can teach researchers today.

"As researchers within genetics come together from increasingly specialised fields, each with their own pre-conceptions and biases, perhaps what is needed is a 21st Century Ronald Fisher to bring together the disparate ideas across biology to address these larger questions. As cross-disciplinary collaborations become more popular and incentives for such projects more common, the future for another 100 years of quantitative genetics becomes increasingly exciting and vibrant."