Not Just Genetics

Gene Expression

• The genetic architecture of economic and political preferences
• Robustness and fragility in neural development
• De novo mutations in autism
• An economics and evolutionary biology reading list
• Nerves of a feather, wire together
• I?ve got your missing heritability right here?
• From miswired brain to psychopathology ? modelling neurodevelopmental disorders in mice
• Jump-starting regeneration of injured nerves
• The use of heritability in policy development
• Why Eurasians aren?t very pale

Discover Blogs' Gene Expression

• The Atlantic has competition
• Education encourages integration?
• Doing psychology right (trying)
• White supremacy and white privilege; same coin
• What if you are more likely to be a psychopath?
• Violence in Science
• We are all special (genomically)
• Bias in psychology
• Genes are overrated, genetics is underrated
• Abraham?s genetic threads

Dienekes

• Ancestry, admixture and selection in Bolivian and Totonac populations
• African genetics international conference (video)
• Science special issue on Human Conflict
• Major new paper on Y chromosome haplogroup G (Rootsi et al. 2012)
• ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World
• Y chromosome diversity in Native Mexicans (Sandoval et al. 2012)
• Y chromosomes in Haiti and Jamaica (Simms et al. 2012)
• 4,000 year old rock art from Mongolia
• Unknown language discovered in tablet from the Governor?s Palace in Tu?han
• Agriculture arrived in Cyprus 10,600 years ago

John Hawks

• Quote: Malinowski's Metropolis
• Quote: Boring robot squeezes
• Quote: Sapir on the slipshod
• Synthetic science
• Dynamics of violence
• Non-consensual replication
• Butterfly genetic theft
• Quantum of solace
• Neuron theory
• Making Big Data work in genetics

Anthropology.net

• A 16th Century Venetian Vampire
• Nina Jablonski at AMNH?s SciCafe & Independent Evolution of Blond Hair
• The Iranian Genome Project
• Complete Denisova Genome Released
• Applying to Grad School in Anthropology- Where will we go?
• Are YOU a Neandertal?
• Microwear Analysis at Dmanisi
• Keeping up with the Hominin
• Dopamine & Anticipating Rewards
• Boost your Immune System: Breed with an Extinct Human Species

Genetic Future

• Will Prenatal Screening for Serious Diseases Rob Us of Our Creativity?
• Personal genomics: no longer just for white folks
• Longevity genetics study retracted from Science
• How accurate is the new Ion Torrent genome, really?
• Yet another trial by press release for personal genomics
• My submission to the FDA on the regulation of personal genomics
• Last chance: let the FDA know why you want direct access to your own genome
• Advantages of the Genome Factory
• 23andMe Releases Results For Major Alzheimer?s Risk Marker
• How New Sequencing Technologies Are Unravelling Rare Genetic Diseases

Genomes Unzipped

• Genome interpretation costs will not spiral out of control
• A review of openSNP, a platform to share genetic data
• Another ?IQ gene?: new methods, old flaws
• Guest post: Accurate identification of RNA editing sites from high-throughput sequencing data
• Misapplied statistics in the OXTR/Prosociality story
• Guest post by Ben Neale: Evaluating the impact of de novo coding mutation in autism
• Identical twins usually do not die from the same thing
• Questioning the evidence for non-canonical RNA editing in humans
• Identifying targets of natural selection in human and dog evolution
• Making sequencing simpler with nanopores

Denim and Tweed

• Science online, AC/DC edition
• The living rainbow: "Masculine" is actually "territorial" in electric fish
• The Best Online Science Writing 2012 is now available for pre-order
• Required listening: Armistead Maupin on the President's marriage statement
• Terry Gross after hours
• Science online, colony collapsing crocodiles edition
• Nothing in Biology Makes Sense: Making sense of polar bears' origins
• And then eventually ...
• The Three Laws of Mitt Romnics
• Evolution is undirected, political evolution doubly so

Yann Klimentidis

• Predicting pigmentation phenotypes with genetic information
• Antagonistic pleiotropy - the case for BRCA mutations
• Taino and African ancestry in Puerto Ricans
• Persistence hunting - is it really possible?
• Scientists like to "fondle their problems"
• Wolpoff interviewed by Razib
• Jared Diamond on type-2 diabetes in India
• Selection can increase genetic diversity - the example of Somali camel herders
• How/why did selection for lactase persistence occur and spread?
• Selection in fruitflies - what kind of genomic signatures does it leave?

The Genetics Genealogist

• The Genetic Genealogist Listed Among Top 50 Genealogy Blogs by Inside History Magazine
• AncestryDNA Officially Launches
• Genetic Genealogy and Personal Genomics in the Classroom ? Part I
• A Review of AncestryDNA ? Ancestry.com?s New Autosomal DNA Test
• Ancestry.com?s AncestryDNA Product
• Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr.
• Genetic Genealogy at Public Radio International
• The Legal Genealogist Discusses Ancestry.com?s New Autosomal Testing
• WDYTYA Reveals More Information About Ancestry.com?s New Autosomal DNA Testing
• All the Latest in Genetic Genealogy and Personal Genomics

Jason Malloy's Bookmarks

• [AFP] Scientists lift lid on turtle evolution
• [Discovery News] Are Sweets Making You Stupid?
• [Nature News] Humans riddled with rare genetic variants
• [NYRoB] What Makes Countries Rich or Poor?
• [WaPo] Minority babies outnumbered white newborns in 2011
• [AFP] South American butterflies cause Darwinian flutter
• [Economist] The joys of parenthood: Father?s day
• [Nature News] Replication studies: Bad copy
• [LAT] Coffee linked to lower risk of death
• [Discover] Hidden Epidemic: ?Tapeworms Living Inside People's Brains

Dusk in Autumn

• Higher support for suicide in falling-crime times
• Has the internet benefited dissidents or the thought police more?
• Jews are uniquely non-religious, part 2
• Songs you owe an apology to for once hating?
• Unknown: Arcade history of the 2000s
• Race-related eruptions as a modern springtime sacrifice?
• Obfuscation about "Judaism" and its origins
• Where did the emo scene go?
• The end of the '60s - '80s music revival
• Streetwise

European Genetics and Anthropology Blog

• Horse domestication originated on the European steppe
• R1b, Bell Beakers and Urnfield Tradition in Italy
• First R1b from Neolithic Europe...and it ain't from the steppe
• Prehistoric Scandinavians genetically most similar to modern Poles
• So who's the most European of us all?
• Prehistoric and "recent" Sub-Saharan African admixture in Europe
• What's the point of peer review (in reference to Marc Haber et al. 2012)?
• A sneak peak at four prehistoric Nordic genomes
• Population genetics meets art at Eurogenes (aka. genetic clines across Western Eurasia)
• Northwest Eurasians + Southwest Eurasians + Mesolithic survivors = modern Europeans

Polish Genetics and Anthropology Blog

• Prehistoric Scandinavians genetically most similar to modern Poles
• Prehistoric and "recent" Sub-Saharan African admixture in Europe
• What's the point of peer review (in reference to Marc Haber et al. 2012)?
• Population genetics meets art at Eurogenes (aka. genetic clines across Western Eurasia)
• Northwest Eurasians + Southwest Eurasians + Mesolithic survivors = modern Europeans
• R1a update: new SNP tree
• On the origins and expansions of R1a and R1b - part 2
• R1a1a1g2d: a paternal genetic signal from the extinct Baltic Prussians in modern Poles and Germans
• Eurogenes' North Euro clusters - phase 2, final results
• Eurogenes' North Euro clusters - phase 1, exploring the data

Artemis

• Panasian-Part IV: Malaysia and Indonesia
• Panasian-Part III: Philippines
• Panasian-Part II: SE Asia
• Panasian-Part I: Altaic and Sino-Tibetan
• Back to Africa- individuals
• Back to Africa- populations
• Restricted Pole Run: Part IV- experiments, conjectures
• Inland Ocean. Restricted Pole Run: Part III
• Old New World. Restricted pole run: Part II
• Western, Eastern, Northern, Southern: Motherland?

Harappa Ancestry Project

• Participation Changes
• HarappaWorld Oracle
• DIY HarappaWorld
• HarappaWorld Admixture
• ADMIXTURE Seed and Cross-Validation
• Pan-Asian Admixture Results
• South Asian fineStructure Ref3 Admixture
• Harappa Oracle
• Ref3 Admixture Dendrograms
• Henn Ref3 K=11 Admixture

Dodecad Ancestry Project

• Estimating your Gök4-related ancestry
• ChromoPainter/fineSTRUCTURE analysis of Italy/Balkans/Anatolia
• fastIBD analysis of Italy/Balkans/Anatolia
• Correspondence between ChromoPainter clusters and ADMIXTURE components in Balkans/West Asia
• ChromoPainter/fineSTRUCTURE analysis of Balkans/West Asia
• Other testing companies
• 'K12b' and 'K7b' calculators
• Submission Opportunity is OVER
• Open submission for everybody until DOD999
• fastIBD analysis of Afroasiatic groups (Jews, Arabs, Assyrians, Berbers, Somalis, Amharas, etc.)

Eurogenes 500,000 SNP BioGeographicAncestry Project

• Coming soon at Eurogenes: a genetic and facial composites map of West Eurasia
• Eurogenes' Gedmatch ADMIXTURE ancestry test guide
• Eurogenes ADMIXTURE utilities at Gedmatch
• So who's the most European of us all?
• Updated genetic map of West Eurasia (April 18)
• Eurogenes hunter gatherer vs. farmer ADMIXTURE test
• Population genetics meets art at Eurogenes (aka. genetic clines across Western Eurasia)
• Northwest Eurasians + Southwest Eurasians + Mesolithic survivors = modern Europeans
• ADMIXTURE analysis of West Eurasia - K=13 run
• ADMIXTURE analysis of West Eurasia - K=12 run

African Ancestry Project

• K 2 to K 18, AF122-AF165
• The project is not dead
• ?africa9? calculator
• Analysis of a Tutsi genotype
• August Update
• Quest for the Malagasy genotype
• DIY Dodecad
• 23andMe?s new Roots project
• K 4 to K 14, AF112-AF121
• Relative Run A

Fennoscandia Biographic Project

• Scandinavians - Young East, Old West?
• Differating Finns - Eastern and Western Histories?
• Geneflows in Fennoscandia
• Projecting MDS dimensions into ADMIXTURE
• MDS plot update
• "Asian" SNP allele found in two Saamis
• Finestructure analysis Chr 1 to 22
• Finestructure of Fennoscandia - Preliminary result Chr 1-6
• Fennoscandian BGA MDS plot update 59 participants
• North-East European, not Siberian (updated)

Magnus Ducatus Lituaniae Project

• Comparing fineSTRUCTURE clustering to Mclust clusterings
• Last posting in the year 2011
• Experimental test: inferring HLA (haplo)types from DNA nucleotide sequences using HLA*IMP framework
• Experimental test: running Admixture on phased samples and estimating ancestries at each locus in a population of admixed individuals (LAMP))
• Some achievements of the MDL project
• 7 months of MDLP project: alpha phase is over
• The major revision of MDLP: adding Yunusbayev et all.2011 data
• (Via) DODECAD:Comparing different ADMIXTURE runs using Zombies
• Analyzing admixture in phased v.unphased dataset
• Simulated SNP-populations of MDLP

West Hunter

• Megafaunal Extinctions
• Unwilding America
• Montezuma?s Revenge
• Ecological dominance: turtles
• Son of low-hanging fruit
• More thoughts on genetic load
• Strategic Analysis
• Zones of Thought
• A sobering thought
• If I were a science fiction writer

Malagasy Ancestry Project

• Initial posting of results (5/10/2012)

Evolving Economics

• Institutions are endogenous
• Entanglement
• Could this critique apply to economics?
• Chimps 1, Humans 0
• While we wait for the genoeconomics revolution
• Maladaptive ideas
• The genetic architecture of economic and political preferences
• Game theory and the peacock?s tail
• Rubin?s Darwinian Politics
• The Biological Basis of Preferences and Behaviour conference

Razib Khan's Bookmarks

• New Details Are Released in Shooting of Trayvon Martin - NYTimes.com
• White American babies are now in the minority. Why does the census divide people by race, anyway? - Slate Magazine
• When you eat matters, not just what you eat
• Can You Call a 9-Year-Old a Psychopath? - NYTimes.com
• A Circle of Tech in Silicon Valley - Collect Payout, Do a Start-Up - NYTimes.com
• Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Maya Calendar Writing - NYTimes.com
• Repeat act: Parallel selection tweaks many of the same genes to make big and heavy mice
• Blond as a window to ancient pigmentation variation
• Eugenics, Malthusianism, and Trepidation, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
• Textuality: The Jews Are a Race, Geneticist Says

For what they were... we are

• Did dogs contribute decisively to our success vs. Neanderthals?
• Video: visualization of ice sheets and sea level on Europe since LGM
• The Cham People and why the genetic structure of SE Asia is mostly not the product of Austronesian expansion
• Ancient DNA from Chalcolithic Thuringia: R1b and headaches
• Blond hair in Melanesia genetically distinct from that of Europeans
• Megalith search engine for Gipuzkoa (Basque Country)
• For those only reading the RSS: Magdalenian mtDNA H in Cantabria confirmed by RFLP testing
• Ancient mitochondrial DNA from the Basque Country and Cantabria: unmistakable mtDNA H in Magdalenian Cantabria
• Swedish Neolithic autosomal comparisons
• Ancient DNA from Santimamiñe (Biscay): not yet published but on the way

The Spittoon

• DNA USA
• Talking about Breast Cancer
• Ashkenazi and Me ? Discovering Unknown Jewish Ancestry with 23andMe
• The War Waged Within: Autoimmunity in Women
• Quiz Answers: Heritability Demystified
• Genetics and the Risks from Traumatic Brain Injuries
• Getting a Handle on Women?s Fertility
• From Menarche to Menopause
• Thanks for the Mito Mom!
• National Cancer Research Awareness Month

The Inductivist

• Gender nonconformity and homosexuality
• IQ and religiosity
• Atheism and crime
• Vitamin B12 and infant brain development
• Fertility among educated, never-married white women
• Infant testosterone predicts toddler behavior
• Increases in suicide by sex
• Head Start does not work
• More suicide among people in 40s and 50s
• Rushton on the skin color/behavior correlation

The Audacious Epigone

• North Carolina Amendment 1 exit polling?
• Feds attacked in border states, Montana and South Dakota
• Fewer marriages, fewer children
• Let's be butt buddies until we get to know each other better
• Unsustainable sustainability?
• Religious conservatives in the US more liberal than the Muslim masses are
• Ranking Seinfield seasons
• Blacks more likely to commit hate crimes than whites are
• Idaho's conservative conservatives
• Moderate is a moderate is a moderate?

Half Sigma

• Did Trayvon smoke a joint that day? Was Half Sigma right once again?
• Read some Zimmerman evidence
• Zimmerman evidence to be released today!
• Non-Hispanic whites a minority of births
• Does coffee make you live longer?
• Race censorship by the MSM
• Trayvon Martin's knuckles were injured
• Girls, episode 5
• Romney leading Obama with women!
• The BAR/BRI model of education

Why Evolution is True

• John Loftus is mad as hell and isn?t going to take it any more
• Pre-eclipse sushi blowout
• A simple way to save billions of dollars
• Does theistic evolution differ from Intelligent Design?
• Mencken week: Day 2
• High-resolution video of Earth
• H. L. Mencken: the first New Atheist
• D. S. Wilson goes after New Atheism again
• Caturday felids: lion snacks
• Truefact

Future Pundit

• Assisted Reproduction Technologies Boost Birth Defects
• Larger Role Found For Genes In Personality
• DHA Cancels Harmful Sugar Effects On Rat Brains
• Loss Of Megaherbavores Cuts Tropical Biodiversity
• CDC: Baby Boomers All Get Hepatitis C Test
• Telomerase Gene Therapy Boosts Mouse Longevity
• IMF Team Sees Oil Price Doubling In Decade
• End of Moore's Law Approaching?
• Individual Cancer Cells Examined For Mutations
• Higher Heart Risk When Living Near Highways

Your Religion is False

• Poll: Religious People Don?t Know That Much About Religion
• Converts are the Worst
• Blasphemy and Forced Reverence
• Who Gets to Cast Magic Spells on You After You Die?
• Cavepeople on Immigration Reform
• Door to Door Atheists
• Advice for the Pope: 10 Ways to Fight Secularism
• 21st Century Religion Apps
• Pork Street Party
• The Big Gay Hawaiian Rabbinical Debate

PLoS Genetics

• Karyotypic Determinants of Chromosome Instability in Aneuploid Budding Yeast
• Deletion of PTH Rescues Skeletal Abnormalities and High Osteopontin Levels in Klotho?/? Mice
• Drosophila Activated Cdc42 Kinase Has an Anti-Apoptotic Function
• Genomic Hypomethylation in the Human Germline Associates with Selective Structural Mutability in the Human Genome
• DNA Demethylation and USF Regulate the Meiosis-Specific Expression of the Mouse Miwi
• Collapse of Telomere Homeostasis in Hematopoietic Cells Caused by Heterozygous Mutations in Telomerase Genes
• Inactivation of a Novel FGF23 Regulator, FAM20C, Leads to Hypophosphatemic Rickets in Mice
• Separation of DNA Replication from the Assembly of Break-Competent Meiotic Chromosomes
• Psip1/Ledgf p52 Binds Methylated Histone H3K36 and Splicing Factors and Contributes to the Regulation of Alternative Splicing
• Target Gene Analysis by Microarrays and Chromatin Immunoprecipitation Identifies HEY Proteins as Highly Redundant bHLH Repressors

Science Daily: Genetics News

• New key mechanism in cell division discovered
• A cell's first steps: Building a model to explain how cells grow
• New exception to a decades-old rule about RNA splicing uncovered
• Slew of rare DNA changes following population explosion may hold clues to common diseases
• New technique reveals unseen information in DNA code
• Pollination with precision: How flowers do it
• RNA modification influences thousands of genes: Revolutionizes understanding of gene expression
• Biologists produce potential malarial vaccine from algae
• Colorful butterflies increase their odds of survival by sharing traits
• Human genes transplanted into zebrafish: Helps identify genes related to autism, schizophrenia and obesity

PLoS ONE: Genetics and Genomics

• Identification of a 4-microRNA Signature for Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma Metastasis and Prognosis
• The Cumulative Effects of Polymorphisms in the DNA Mismatch Repair Genes and Tobacco Smoking in Oesophageal Cancer Risk
• Gut Pathology and Responses to the Microsporidium Nosema ceranae in the Honey Bee Apis mellifera
• Involvement of microRNA Lethal-7a in the Regulation of Embryo Implantation in Mice
• Identification of New Delhi Metallo-?-lactamase 1 in Acinetobacter lwoffii of Food Animal Origin
• ?-Thalassemia Impairs the Cytoadherence of Plasmodium falciparum-Infected Erythrocytes
• Joint Effects of Febrile Acute Infection and an Interferon-? Polymorphism on Breast Cancer Risk
• Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis (DGGE) as a Powerful Novel Alternative for Differentiation of Epizootic ISA Virus Variants
• Erythroid Promoter Confines FGF2 Expression to the Marrow after Hematopoietic Stem Cell Gene Therapy and Leads to Enhanced Endosteal Bone Formation
• Genetic Variation in the ?2-Adrenocepter Gene Is Associated with Susceptibility to Bacterial Meningitis in Adults

Gene Expression Forum

• Moving to Delicious
• [Spiegel] Studies Show Nurture at Least as Important as Nature
• [Guardian] The Artificial Ape by Timothy Taylor
• [NYT] Surviving by Disguising: Nature’s Game of Charades
• [New Sci] Junkie food: Tastes your brain can't resist
• [Nature News] Bowerbirds trick mates with optical illusions
• [LAT] Electrodes translate brain waves into words
• [Guardian] Psychologists identify killer dance moves for men
• [OkTrends] The REAL 'Stuff White People Like'
• [Slate] The United States of Inequality

Your Genetic Genealogist

• Mocavo is Wrong: 23andMe is not Partnering with AncestryDNA
• Mixed Roots Foundation Raffling 23andMe and Family Tree DNA Kits Tomorrow
• "Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr." - DNA in the Ninth Episode
• Reminder - 23andMe's subscription model ends today at 5pm PST
• 23andMe Eliminates Subscription Model and Announces New Price
• "Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr." - DNA in the Eighth Episode
• Ancestry.com Buys GeneTree (Another Competitor) and Launches Their New Autosomal DNA Product to Subscribers
• "Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr." - DNA in the Seventh Episode
• "Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr." - DNA in the Sixth Episode
• DNA Day Sale at Family Tree DNA starts tonight!

Reaction Norm

• Careerist news
• More on connectomics?
• The Best TED Talk Ever
• Two graphs
• Whither quantitative genetics?
• The missing heritability: rare variants of large effect?
• I am officially boring
• Connectomics Part III ? The Epiconnectome
• Connectomics Part II ? The Worm
• What is a connectome good for? Part I.

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