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Commentary on human genetics and evolution, direct-to-consumer genetic testing, and the personal genomics industry.
Daniel MacArthur
I write about the genetic and evolutionary basis of human variation, and the companies trying to sell you information about your genome.
Daniel also blogs about personal genomics at Genomes Unzipped.
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September 19, 2008
Category: personal genomics
Google co-founder Sergey Brin has discovered that he carries a genetic variant associated with an increase in his risk of Parkinson's disease, via a 23andMe genome scan.
Posted by Daniel MacArthur at 11:42 AM • 3 Comments •
Category: big genetics
This will probably only be of interest to population genetics afficianados, but I just noticed that the HapMap project has made its phase 3 data available through its browser (the data were previously available for download, but are much...
Posted by Daniel MacArthur at 9:10 AM • 1 Comments •
September 16, 2008
Category: genome-wide association studies
The genome-wide association study has been the technique du jour in human genetics for much of the last two years. It's a pure brute force approach, surveying up to a million sites of common variation throughout the genomes of thousands...
Posted by Daniel MacArthur at 12:32 PM • 8 Comments •
September 15, 2008
Category: genome-wide association studies
Over the last two years, genome-wide association studies have identified hundreds of genetic variants associated with common diseases - but for most diseases the bulk of genetic disease risk remains unidentified. Where are the risk variants hiding?
Posted by Daniel MacArthur at 9:02 AM • 5 Comments •
September 11, 2008
Category: whole-genome sequencing
The announcement of the first Arab genome sequence is standard genomics by press release - but it promises some good things to come for human disease genomics, and for biomedical science in the Middle East.
Posted by Daniel MacArthur at 4:18 AM • •
September 10, 2008
Category: blog admin
Update: Please RSVP on Facebook if possible. Tim Lambert from Deltoid has organised a ScienceBlogs millionth comment party in Sydney. I'll be there as well (albeit probably looking a little frazzled and well in need of a beer, as I...
Posted by Daniel MacArthur at 11:21 PM • •
Category: bioinformatics
A quick note for bioinformaticians in the audience: Neil Saunders has an excellent post on parsing (i.e. processing a file to retrieve specific sections of interest). Neil's hints are a useful introduction for beginners, but also provide some handy reminders...
Posted by Daniel MacArthur at 12:18 PM • •
Category: personal genomics
David Hamilton argues that the price cut for 23andMe's genome scan service may in fact herald the demise of the personal genomics industry.
Posted by Daniel MacArthur at 11:58 AM • 1 Comments •
September 9, 2008
Category: personal genomics
23andMe is one of three companies currently providing chip-based personal genomics assays, which provide information about up to a million sites of common variation throughout the human genome. These companies provide insight into a limited but informative slice of your...
Posted by Daniel MacArthur at 6:25 AM • 8 Comments •
September 8, 2008
Category: personal genomics
The biotech start-up Knome offers personal genomics for the discerning (and wealthy) customer: a near-complete sequence of your genome for a cool $350,000. Is your DNA worth the money?
Posted by Daniel MacArthur at 12:01 PM • 10 Comments •
