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Genetics:

Soul gene?  permlink

Ron Bailey in Reason, The Genetics of Ensoulment: Advances in stem cell research may be provoking a kind of "God of the Gaps" retreat on the moral status of embryos. People who subscribe to God of the Gaps thinking believe...

Ways to skin the cousin marriage issue  permlink

Another article about cousin marriage in the UK. The issue here is simple; you have a National Health Service which covers everyone, and doctors are noticing that Pakistanis are overrepresented in many cases of recessive diseases. The culprit is probably...

Browsing biology on the web: NextBio  permlink

Last year p-ter put up a post pointing to useful online tools such as Haplotter. One of the great things about biology today is that so much of the data from genomics is being thrown out there within reach of...

The theory of evolution  permlink

Over at The Scientist Neil S. Greenspan has an article up, Darwin and deduction: One of the most remarkable but insufficiently noted features of Charles Darwin's conception of evolution is that its logical implications are still being worked out. I...

Sewall Wright & genetic drift  permlink

Notes on Sewall Wright: Genetic Drift: Continuing my series of notes on the work of Sewall Wright, this one deals with the subject of genetic drift. I had originally planned to call this note 'Inbreeding and the decline of genetic...

Potential for Vitamin D synthesis  permlink

From The evolution of human skin coloration, page 12:...

Why it was best to be white  permlink

Gene Genie #30  permlink

Welcome to the 30th Gene Genie! Indulge in the fascinating world of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine has a "genetics lifestyle" post, Home Improvement For Geneticists. Not quite Tim Allen. Fellow ScienceBlogger Sandra illustrates Mapping polymorphisms in 16S ribosomal RNA. Definitely...

Behavior genetics + neuroscience + genomics = ?  permlink

Genetic variation in human NPY expression affects stress response and emotion: Understanding inter-individual differences in stress response requires the explanation of genetic influences at multiple phenotypic levels, including complex behaviours and the metabolic responses of brain regions to emotional stimuli....

No Anglo-Saxon Apartheid?  permlink

Is it necessary to assume an apartheid-like social structure in Early Anglo-Saxon England? : It has recently been argued that there was an apartheid-like social structure operating in Early Anglo-Saxon England. This was proposed in order to explain the relatively...

Want sons? Eat well!  permlink

Mother's Diet Influences Infant Sex: High Energy Intake Linked To Conception Of Sons: ...The study shows a clear link between higher energy intake around the time of conception and the birth of sons. The findings may help explain the falling...

What L. L. Cavalli-Sforza got wrongpermlink

History and Geography of Human Genes is one of my favorite books; it might rank up there in my "top 10" if I ever wished to enumerate one. But in both Human Evolutionary Genetics, a textbook, and A Genetic and...

Racial differences & heart attacks  permlink

If you don't like the word "racial," just substitute "population." In any case, Many African-Americans Have A Gene That Prolongs Life After Heart Failure: About 40 percent of African-Americans have a genetic variant that can protect them after heart failure...

Is medicine more "scientific" than physics?  permlink

Sheril pointed me to this data rich release of Science and Engineering Indicators. I was interested to see this table:...

Why you might have asthma?  permlink

Effect of Variation in CHI3L1 on Serum YKL-40 Level, Risk of Asthma, and Lung Function: Background The chitinase-like protein YKL-40 is involved in inflammation and tissue remodeling. We recently showed that serum YKL-40 levels were elevated in patients with asthma...

Notes on Sewall Wright: the Measurement of Kinship  permlink

David Burbridge continues his awesome series of posts on the history of evolutionary genetic thought with Notes on Sewall Wright: the Measurement of Kinship. Here's a taste:...

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