Malcolm Gladwell: Do Genetic Advantages Make Sports Unfair? : The New Yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2013/09/09/130909crat_atlarge_gladwell A CRITIC AT LARGE MAN AND SUPERMAN In athletic competitions, what qualifies as a sporting chance? BY MALCOLM...
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View ArticleSearching for missing heritability: Designing rare variant association studies
Searching for missing heritability… rare variant association studies http://www.pnas.org/content/111/4/E455.abstract Pessimistic on #RVAS in #noncoding regions Nice overview of study design. Good...
View ArticleHigh-resolution mapping reveals a conserved, widespread, dynamic meiotically...
High-res mapping reveals a conserved…mRNA methylation program http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3956118/ Predicting methyl sites w/ seq., structure & position Cell. 2013 Dec 5; 155(6):...
View ArticleTopology of the human and mouse m6A RNA methylomes revealed by m6A-seq
Human & mouse [mRNA] #methylomes revealed by m6A-seq http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v485/n7397/full/nature11112.html Conservation across species & conditions (for most sites) Dan...
View ArticleConvergent transcriptional specializations in the brains of humans and...
Convergent…specializations in brains of humans & songbirds http://www.sciencemag.org/content/346/6215/1256846.long Both have matching expression patterns across regions
View ArticleIdentification of a large set of rare complete human knockouts : Nature...
A large set [1171] of rare complete human knockouts http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ng.3243.html ~8% Icelanders have one; from a larger set of ~5K genes w/ #LOFs Also: In Iceland’s...
View ArticleGenetics And That Striped Dress
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View ArticleThe Height Gap – The New Yorker
The #Height Gap – betw. individuals more rel. w. genes but betw. populations w. environment http://www.NewYorker.com/magazine/2004/04/05/the-height-gap Why Americans are short!
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