{"id":20213,"date":"2010-07-29T08:19:42","date_gmt":"2010-07-29T16:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=5213"},"modified":"2010-07-29T08:19:42","modified_gmt":"2010-07-29T16:19:42","slug":"daily-data-dump-%e2%80%93-thursday-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/29\/daily-data-dump-%e2%80%93-thursday-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Data Dump \u2013 Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are a <strong>regular reader<\/strong>, and have not done so, please take the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.advancedsurvey.com\/default.asp?SurveyID=72013\">Summer 2010 Gene Expression survey<\/a>. N = 300, so I&#8217;ll stop buggin&#8217; now and start posting results in the next day or so.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/communities\/sciencefair\/post\/2010\/07\/otzi-iceman-gene-map-genome-\/1\">Ancient iceman&#8217;s gene map underway<\/a>. Does anyone have any inside dirt on Otzi? His mtDNA was an outgroup to any modern Europeans, but we know that there&#8217;s sometimes a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2010\/05\/the-three-layers-of-the-neandertal-cake\/\">disjunction<\/a> between mtDNA and autosomal results.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/geneticfuture\/2010\/07\/protecting_consumers_from_thei.php?utm_source=networkbanner&#038;utm_medium=link\">Protecting consumers from their own genetic data will come at a cost<\/a>. Regulations have costs. Sometimes those costs are worth it (and result in long-term gains due to buffering of short-term volatility and such).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2010\/07\/100729074905.htm?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;%23038;utm_campaign=Feed:+sciencedaily+(ScienceDaily:+Latest+Science+News)\">Vitamin D Deficiency Linked to Arterial Stiffness in Black Teens<\/a>. There has been some concern about supplementation in colored people based on studies with whites, so this is important. Many people with darker-skins, including me, have been diagnosed with vitamin D deficiency and have started to take supplements. Anecdotally many of us report a decrease in respiratory infections and such. But it will be good when we have more rigorous studies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20100728\/ap_on_re_us\/us_thriving_amish\">Study says Amish expanding westward<\/a>. Amish future!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2010\/07\/100728131717.htm?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;%23038;utm_campaign=Feed:+sciencedaily+(ScienceDaily:+Latest+Science+News)\">Ancient DNA Identifies Donkey Ancestors, People Who Domesticated Them<\/a>. Any surprise that domestication was a bottom-up, not top-down affair? Command economies are good at increasing factor inputs, but not necessarily driving innovation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are a regular reader, and have not done so, please take the Summer 2010 Gene Expression survey. N = 300, so I&#8217;ll stop buggin&#8217; now and start posting results in the next day or so.<br \/>\nAncient iceman&#8217;s gene map underway. Does anyone have any inside dirt on Otzi? His mtDNA was an outgroup to [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,246],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-daily-data-dump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20213","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=20213"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20353,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20213\/revisions\/20353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}