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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...Posted on May 14, 2008 2:56 AM • 1 Comments
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...Posted on May 12, 2008 7:33 PM • 19 Comments
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...Posted on May 12, 2008 10:14 AM • 1 Comments
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...Posted on May 9, 2008 1:58 PM • 0 Comments
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...Posted on May 9, 2008 12:18 AM • 0 Comments
Potential for Vitamin D synthesis permlink
From The evolution of human skin coloration, page 12:...Posted on April 30, 2008 11:27 AM • 27 Comments
Why it was best to be white permlink
Posted on April 28, 2008 10:32 AM • 27 Comments
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...Posted on April 27, 2008 1:49 AM • 1 Comments
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....Posted on April 25, 2008 3:36 AM • 1 Comments
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...Posted on April 23, 2008 12:08 PM • 3 Comments
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...Posted on April 22, 2008 11:01 PM • 4 Comments
What L. L. Cavalli-Sforza got wrong? permlink
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...Posted on April 21, 2008 11:39 PM • 0 Comments
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...Posted on April 21, 2008 4:10 AM • 7 Comments
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:...Posted on April 15, 2008 6:02 AM • 41 Comments
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...Posted on April 14, 2008 6:24 PM • 11 Comments
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:...Posted on April 13, 2008 11:40 AM • 0 Comments
