{"id":13109,"date":"2010-06-06T00:24:41","date_gmt":"2010-06-06T08:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/wp\/?p=485"},"modified":"2010-06-06T00:24:41","modified_gmt":"2010-06-06T08:24:41","slug":"jews-and-genetics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2010\/06\/06\/jews-and-genetics\/","title":{"rendered":"Jews and genetics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"topsy_widget_data topsy_theme_blue\" style=\"float: right;margin-left: 0.75em; background: url(data:,%7B%20%22url%22%3A%20%22http%253A%252F%252Fwww.gnxp.com%252Fwp%252Fgenomics%252Fjews-and-genetics%22%2C%20%22style%22%3A%20%22big%22%2C%20%22title%22%3A%20%22Jews%20and%20genetics%22%20%7D);\"><\/div>\n<p>Over at <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2010\/06\/genetics-the-jewish-question\/\">Discover Blogs<\/a> I have a very <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2010\/06\/genetics-the-jewish-question\/\">long post<\/a> up on <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2010\/06\/genetics-the-jewish-question\/\">Jews &#038; Genetics<\/a>. In particular the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cell.com\/AJHG\/abstract\/S0002-9297(10)00246-6\">recent paper<\/a> in <i>AJHG<\/i>. One observation I have to make about Jewish genetics:<b> when it comes to PCA plots which illustrate the relationship of Jews, in particular Ashkenazi Jews, to other populations I&#8217;ve noticed that two different individuals can look at the same plot and <i>reach diametrically opposite conclusions<\/i>.<\/b> For example, &#8220;this plot shows that Jews are European&#8221; vs. &#8220;this plot shows that Jews are not European,&#8221; where &#8220;this plot&#8221; refers to the same plot. An interesting illustration of the importance of interpretative frames when it comes to distilling the valid inferences from results.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\" href=\"http:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share_save\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\/Bookmark\"\/><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Discover Blogs I have a very long post up on Jews &#038; Genetics. In particular the recent paper in AJHG. One observation I have to make about Jewish genetics: when it comes to PCA plots which illustrate the relationship of Jews, in particular Ashkenazi Jews, to other populations I&#8217;ve noticed that two different [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,82,84,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics","category-genomics","category-historical-genetics","category-jews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13109"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23773,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13109\/revisions\/23773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}