{"id":72049,"date":"2012-07-09T22:38:37","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T06:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=17222"},"modified":"2012-07-09T22:38:37","modified_gmt":"2012-07-10T06:38:37","slug":"the-genetic-map-of-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2012\/07\/09\/the-genetic-map-of-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"The genetic map of Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2012\/07\/map1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-17224\" title=\"map\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2012\/07\/map1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"348\" height=\"554\" \/><\/a><strong>Update:<\/strong> A commenter noted that North England and Southwest Wales have different shape points. This is clear in the original PDF when I increased resolution. So ignore my comment about Brythonic Celtcs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>End Update<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A few weeks ago I heard about the project to create a genetic map of Britain. Actually, I knew a bit about this because they&#8217;ve been publishing a few papers here and there over the years. But there is now an <a href=\"http:\/\/sse.royalsociety.org\/2012\/exhibits\/genetic-maps\/\">an exhibit up<\/a> at <em>The Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2012<\/em>. My attention was drawn to this because British tabloids kept pushing headlines like &#8220;Cornish genetically different from other English!&#8221; I emailed one of the scientists associated with the project, Peter Donnelly, but he never got back to me. So I figured I would post anyway. Looks like they&#8217;re using thousands of samples at 600,000 SNPs. When they get a paper out it should be neat. On the other hand the map leaves a little to be desired. The clusters are clear, <strong>but what&#8217;s the genetic distance between the clusters in a relative sense?<\/strong> How were the cut-offs devised? I&#8217;m sure there are reasonable answers, but &#8230;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GeneExpressionBlog\/~4\/zGHCJp9KeXA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update: A commenter noted that North England and Southwest Wales have different shape points. This is clear in the original PDF when I increased resolution. So ignore my comment about Brythonic Celtcs.<br \/>\nEnd Update<br \/>\nA few weeks ago I heard about the proje&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1542],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthroplogy","category-british-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72049","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=72049"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72228,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72049\/revisions\/72228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}