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Dodecad open for submissions
Since I know plenty of friends are getting, or just got, their V3 results, I thought I’d pass this on, Open-ended submission opportunity for 23andMe data (#2): Who is eligible Everyone who is of European, Asian, or North African ancestry and all …
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Species, not arbitrary, but not clear & distinct
John Hawks and Jerry Coyne are mooting the ‘species concepts’ debate, with particular focus on recent human origins (specifically, the relationship of modern humans to Neandertals and Denisovans). Coyne, who coauthored the book Speciation …
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Health care costs and ancestry
The Pith: In this post I examine the relationship between racial ancestry and cancer mortality risks conditioned on particular courses of treatment. I review research which indicates that the amount of Native American ancestry can be a very important …
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Personal genomics in two dimensions
The Pith: In this post I take a different tack at genetic data visualization. Instead of bar plots, I show how genetic relationships can be explored using two dimensional spaces. Last week I suggested that in some ways I had hit a wall of sharply reduc…
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Friday Fluff – February 4th, 2011
1) First, a post from the past: Neandertal & humans – introgression. 2) Weird search query of the week: “non-coding rnas and dragons.” 3) Comment of the week, in response to Why siblings differ differently: The people who criticize…
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A site about books I have read/like/recommend
It’s called Razib on Books. I posted the rationale over at Discover Blogs. Basically a way for me to organize past content which new readers are not aware of.
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Razib on Books
In the New Year’s Open Thread D. Chamberlin suggested: I think your many book reviews ought to be more accessible. They were for me an excellent guide as to which books I should buy as well as educational in and of themselves. You have a long lis…
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The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam
Link to review: In the lands of the living God
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The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam
Link to review: In the lands of the living God
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Does your twin have “rights” on your genomes?
Randall Parker asks, Genetic Privacy And Identical Twins: Suppose you have a right to genetic privacy. You might believe you do. Suppose you have an identical twin. Suppose the identical twin decides to publish his (or her) genetic sequence on the web….
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Marketplace of the Gods: How Economics Explains Religion
Link to review: The dismal gods
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Pandora’s Seed: The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization
Link to review: Pandora’s Seed: The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization
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Descartes’ Baby: How The Science Of Child Development Explains What Makes Us Human
Link to review: Inducing Disgust
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Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present
Link to review: Who’s the barbarian now? Empires of the Silk Road
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Dragon Bone Hill: An Ice-Age Saga of Homo erectus
Link to review: Dragon’s Battles
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Dragon Bone Hill: An Ice-Age Saga of Homo erectus
Link to review: Dragon’s Battles
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Mother Nature: Maternal Instincts and How They Shape the Human Species
Link to review: Mother Nature: a complicated and morally ambivalent tale
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Mother Nature: Maternal Instincts and How They Shape the Human Species
Link to review: Mother Nature: a complicated and morally ambivalent tale
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Your genome is mine! (?)
Guest blogging at Genetic Future Mischa Angrist has a post up critiquing the defense of the lack of disclosure of genetic/genomic information to research participants. Mischa begins: Readers of Genetic Future, Genomics Law Report and Genomes Unzipped …
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Why siblings differ differently
The Pith: In this post I examine how looking at genomic data can clarify exactly how closely related siblings really are, instead of just assuming that they’re about 50% similar. I contrast this randomness among siblings to the hard & fast de…