Ditte Demontis
Ditte Demontis is a professor in psychiatric genetics at Aarhus University in Denmark. She specializes in the genetic underpinnings of psychiatric conditions and was involved in research analyzing Adolf Hitler's DNA for a documentary that suggested a genetic predisposition to certain mental health disorders. Demontis's work emphasizes the importance of understanding polygenic risk scores in the context of research, particularly concerning their implications for individual behavior and health.
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Demontis compared Hitler’s polygenic risk score with those of 30,000 Danish people and found that if Hitler lived today his score for schizophrenia, autism and bipolar disorder was actually higher than 99% of the individuals in the Danish population.
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