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Tag Archives: genomics
Recent Ancestry of the USA and the 100k Genome Project
Holiday presents for pop-gen enthusiasts come in the form of data – boatloads of it! The past two weeks saw the announcements of two neat studies that spell monumental steps toward our understanding of the genetics of mixed populations. With … Continue reading
Posted in genomics, population genetics
Tagged genomics, Homo sapiens, population structure
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The Ust'-Ishim Genome
This year has been monumental in pulling together several interesting pieces in the human evolution out of Africa puzzle (Lazaridis et al., Ruiz-Linares et al., Skoglund et al., Huerta-Sanchez et al., Jeong et al., Pickrell et al., Raghavan et al., … Continue reading
Posted in genomics, mutation, Paleogenomics, population genetics
Tagged genomics, Homo sapiens, NGS
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A tale of two Dryad submissions
As it happens, the last two scientific papers I’ve had accepted for publication are also the first two papers for which my first-authorial duties included some substantial journal-mandated archiving of supporting data (beyond uploading a handful of DNA sequences to … Continue reading
Posted in data archiving, peer review
Tagged Dryad, genomics, Joshua tree, Medicago HapMap Project, microsatellite, phylogenetics
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What we're reading
As we head into the weekend, here’s a few things we found this week that might be worth your screen time: In the journals Maughan, H., P. W. Wang, J. Diaz Caballero, P. Fung, Y. Gong, S. L. Donaldson, L. … Continue reading
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Tagged adaptation, coffee, cystic fibrosis, genomics, mice, microbiology, music, rice, SI-Seq
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Genes … in … space!
It’s something of a classic result in human population genomics: Go out and genotype thousands of people at thousands of genetic markers. (This is getting easier to do every day.) Then summarize the genetic variation at your thousands of markers … Continue reading