 The missing heritability problem is an example of a conflict between two seemingly compatible scientific methods that give conflicting results and thus has rich implications for philosophy of science. One of these implications is pursued by Bourrat and Lu (2017), who argue that the missing heritability problem is largely ‘dissolved’ in two complementary steps. On the one hand, Bourrat and Lu indicate that the numerical gap between alternative methods of estimating heritability may be partially narrowed by decreasing traditional estimates, which have historically been charged as being overestimated. On the other hand, Bourrat and Lu argue that the numerical gap may be closed even more by altering SNP heritability techniques so as to include non-linear and epigenetic factors that they claim are currently untracked by GWAS.