Not Just Genetics

Discover Blogs' Gene Expression

• The eternal Aboriginal
• Saiga through the bottleneck?and back?
• Dog and man: a 30,000 year friendship
• Human mutation unveiled
• 10,000 hours may gain you little if you have no talent
• Please ignore mtDNA and Y chromosomal haplogroups
• Vulcans through the eye of the bottleneck
• Open thread, 5/19/2013
• Why race as a biological construct matters
• Angelina Jolie, Myriad Genetics, & patents on genes

Evolving Economics

• A science of intentional change
• Sexual selection and entrepreneurship
• A week of links
• IQ is an artificial construct
• The IQ barrier
• A week of links
• Cluelessness
• Impatience and aggregate risk
• A week of links
• Selection during pregnancy

Dienekes

• Uruk migrants in the Caucasus
• Cosmic impact event ~12.8kya caused the Younger Dryas
• More population structure in the Netherlands (Lao et al. 2013)
• Review on germline mutation rate in humans (Campbell and Eichler 2013)
• An avalanche of Tibetan genetic data (Qi et al. 2013)
• Evolutionary history of Uralic languages (Honkola et al. 2013)
• Toba eruption did not cause volcanic winter in Africa ~75ka
• mtDNA from Minoan Crete (Hughey et al. 2013)
• Facial reconstruction of 5,600-year old Maltese woman
• Links between Mycenaeans and Scandinavia

John Hawks

• White House to recognize open science
• New Denisova and Neandertal DNA results reported
• Quote: Phillip Tobias on the study of race
• "I Believe in Gene Flow"
• AAA: "President Obama Supports Scientific Integrity of Anthropology"
• Neandertal night on PBS
• Open 3-d archive of Kromdraai
• Check out Trowelblazers
• The sea shall give up her dead
• Eugenie Scott to retire from NCSE

West Hunter

• Tibet
• Clark/Frost Domestication
• Cicada Doom
• Ignorant Chatterers
• And now for a word from our sponsor
• Sustainability
• Transsexuals
• There?s good eating on one of those
• How sweet it is!
• Cinco de Mayo

Haldane's Sieve

• Our paper: The rise and fall of the Phytophthora infestans lineage that triggered the Irish potato famine
• Simpsonian ?Evolution by Jumps? in an Adaptive Radiation of Anolis Lizards
• Efficient Algorithms for Multivariate Linear Mixed Models in Genome-wide Association Studies
• Variable-length haplotype construction for gene-gene interaction studies
• Our paper: Bayesian test for co-localisation between pairs of genetic association studies using summary statistics
• The rise and fall of the Phytophthora infestans lineage that triggered the Irish potato famine
• Bayesian test for co-localisation between pairs of genetic association studies using summary statistics
• Computing the posterior expectation of phylogenetic trees
• Small ancestry informative marker panels for complete classification between the original four HapMap populations
• SISRS: SNP Identification from Short Read Sequences

human varieties

Denim and Tweed

• Science online, where no one has gone before edition
• Equality
• Science online: Opening lab closets everywhere edition
• "This is water," now in convenient filmic format
• Holy poop! Scicurious is pseudonymous no more
• New project: Surveying LGBTQ folks working in science
• Carl Zimmer on the evolution of feathers, animated
• Carnival of Evolution, May 2013
• Science online, meddling Congresspeople and deceptive orchids edition
• Felony experimentation

Jason Malloy's Bookmarks

• [NYRoB] What Is Autism?
• [Nat Geo] The Mystery of Risk
• [National Review] About That Dissertation
• [WSJ] A Refuge for Charlatans
• [Slate] Who's Your Daddy?
• [LAT] How to buy happiness
• [Nature News] Shocks to the brain improve mathematical abilities
• [NYT] Why the Fuss Over the D.S.M.-5?
• [Boston Globe] Harvard students erupt at scholar?s claim in thesis
• [Slate] How to Superpower the Immune System

The Genetics Genealogist

• Press Release From Family Tree DNA Describing the Recent Addition to the Y Chromosome Phylogenetic Tree
• AncestryDNA Releases Raw Data
• Family Tree DNA Offers 12-Marker Y-DNA Test for $39 (Limited Time Only)
• Thought For the Day ? Crowdfunding Genealogy
• 23andMe and LabCorp Sued For Patent Infringement
• National Genographic 2.0 Results Received
• Finding Family: My Search for Roots and the Secrets in My DNA
• The Genographic Project Announces Geno 2.0
• Problems with AncestryDNA?s Genetic Ethnicity Prediction?
• GEDmatch.com Adds Phasing Tool

Genomes Unzipped

• ACMG guidelines on IFs ? responding to the response?
• Identification of genomic regions shared between distant relatives
• Why predicting the phenotypic effect of mutations is hard
• No choice for you
• Henrietta Lacks?s genome sequence has been publicly available for years
• Do we have an obligation to look?
• Learning more from your 23andMe results with Imputation
• £100M for whole patient genomes ? an implementation challenge
• £100M for whole patient genomes ? revolutionising genetic diagnostics or squandering NHS cash?
• Crowd-funding personalized bioscience

Dusk in Autumn

• Gay Peter Pan-isms: No interest in cologne or perfume
• Wearing short shorts, a field report
• Children of helicopter parenting grow up gullible and naive
• The gay haircut fetish
• The Social Darwinist roots of Chinese mediocrity and amorality
• Amphetamines on campus -- an initial pushback?
• Chatting with servers but not your friends or fellow patrons
• The Great Gatsby as chick flick for SWPL Millennials
• Paleo bathing
• Helicopter parents going further to destroy playgrounds

European Genetics and Anthropology Blog

• Long dead barbarians of the Pannonian Plain to be genotyped for autosomal DNA
• Norse dwarves: Bronze Age metallurgists from the Mediterranean?
• High mtDNA affinity between Bronze Age Minoans and Western Europeans
• South Asian R1a in the 1000 Genomes Project
• Modern European ADMIXTURE components = Neolithic ecological zones (+ post-Neolithic in-situ expansions)
• Ecological constraints on Europe's first farmers
• Neolithic mtDNA H genomes + Bell Beaker Culture origins in Iberia
• Ancient mtDNA from Unetice Culture + genetic origins of modern Central Europeans
• A revised timescale for human evolution + new revelations about Paleolithic European mtDNA
• Genetic structure of European Russia

Polish Genetics and Anthropology Blog

• South Asian R1a in the 1000 Genomes Project
• Polish "Goths" enjoyed their millet, while Polish "Vikings" did not
• Hundreds of prehistoric North European skeletons to be genotyped for Y-DNA, mtDNA and autosomal DNA
• R1a and R1b as markers of the Proto-Indo-European expansion: a review of ancient DNA evidence
• No Mongolian admixture in Poland
• Poles and Jews along the Middle East to North Europe cline of genetic diversity
• Y-DNA from Polish late Neolithic Corded Ware remains
• Post-Mesolithic population replacement/extinctions in Northeastern Europe
• The myth of the Gothic migration from Scandinavia to Poland
• New R1a1a tree

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

• HarappaWorld HRP0289-HRP0297
• HarappaWorld HRP0284-HRP0288
• HarappaWorld HRP0273-HRP0283
• HarappaWorld HRP0253-HRP0272
• 23andme Now $99
• Eurasian ChromoPainter Chunk Counts
• Eurasian fineStructure Dendrograms
• Eurasian ChromoPainter Analysis
• 23andme $50 Off
• HarappaWorld HRP0250-HRP0252

Dodecad Ancestry Project

• D-statistics on ADMIXTURE components
• Geno 2.0 patch for DIYDodecad
• 'globe13' participant results
• 'globe13' calculator
• 'globe10' calculator
• 'globe4' calculator
• Geno 2.0 data request
• fastIBD analysis of Africans and African Americans
• On the so-called "Calculator Effect"
• fastIBD analysis of East/Central Eurasians and select West Eurasians

Eurogenes 500,000 SNP BioGeographicAncestry Project

• The rise of Bronze Age society: new results from science and archaeology
• New player on the scene: Full Genomes Corporation
• The revenge of the hunter-gatherer genes!
• Eurogenes K36 at GEDmatch
• 4-Ancestors Oracle at GEDmatch
• SPatial Ancestry analysis (SPA) "model" files from Eurogenes
• Jtest K14 - the Eurogenes Ashkenazi ancestry test
• There?s something very North Eurasian about Indo-European
• Y-DNA vs. genome-wide ancestry in Poles, Germans and Scandinavians
• STRUCTURE analysis of Eastern Europe at K=6

African Ancestry Project

Fennoscandia Biographic Project

• La Brâna and the Saamis
• La Braña individuals and the 1000G European populations
• Updated Europe Analysis
• Updated World Analysis
• Updated local Fennoscandian analysis
• Possible application of asymmetries in Chromopainter
• Updated Europe analysis
• Updated World Analysis
• Updated local Fennoscandian analysis
• Oceania influence in East-Asians

Magnus Ducatus Lituaniae Project

• New add-on tool to MDLP World-22 calculator
• The levels and dating of admixture in Belorusians
• ROLLOFF analysis of Poles, Belarusians and Russians from central regions of Russia
• World-22 dataset: fastIBD analysis
• Spatial Analysis of Ancestry (UPDATE)
• A quick update to SupportMix's Chromosome Painting
• Geography of Ancestry: the SPA analysis of the MDLP participants
• Free SNP test offer from DNATribes
• The component maps of MDLP-World22 calculator
• Paint Me a Rainbow: Painting World 22 ancestral components

Vaêdhya

• Y-DNA Haplogroup N in India: Wayward Uralics or Lab Error?
• Yaghnobi Tajiks: Preliminary Results May Reveal Iranian Plateau Affinity
• Introducing the ACD Tool
• West Asian Y-DNA Haplogroup Q - Turkish or Autochthonous Origins?
• Interpreting New Iranian Y-Chromosomal Data (Grugni et al.)
• The Secrets of Central Asia: Chapter II - The Nomads of West Siberia
• Worldwide Distribution of Dodecad K10a Components
• Secrets of Central Asia: Chapter I - The Pokrovsk Man
• North European Component Variation within the Eurasian Heartland
• Showcasing of Y-DNA Variation Among Afghan Ethnic Groups

JayMan

• IQ and Death
• Obesity and IQ
• Unhooked over Django Unchained
• Keep calm?
• An H/T to P&T
• The HBD of HBD realists ? where I get my readers
• Back to Basics
• Liberalism and Immigration
• Before we go too far, something to think about?
• Gary Taubes on Obesity and Bad Science

HBD* Chick

• we?re dumber than the victorians
• practice makes you?
• tornado
• a loaded question
• linkfest ? 05/19/13
• where are my DRAGONS?!
• rhex
• twitter dodgeball
• ed west?s last post at the telegraph
• human leukocyte antigen (hla) haplotypes and human biodiversity

Anthropology.net

• The BH-1 Hominin from Balanica (Serbia)
• Today?s Google Doodle: Mary Leakey?s 100th Birthday
• Skeletons in the Closet
• Anthropologists Are Lowest Paid & Least Respected Scientists In the United States
• There?s Always Next Year?
• The Diversity of the African Genome & Traces of an Unknown Hominin
• Moving The Moai
• Google Supports The Endangered Languages Project
• Were Paleolithic European Cave Paintings Made By Neanderthals?
• The Role Of Endorphins In Long Distance Human Endurance & Evolution

Razib Khan's Bookmarks

• Dienekes? Anthropology Blog: Uruk migrants in the Caucasus
• Richwine, Biden and Me | The American Conservative
• NASA funds 3-D printed pizza project.
• Swedes shaken by second night of riots in Stockholm suburb triggered by police shooting - The Washington Post
• BBC News - Man dead in suspected Woolwich terror attack
• Alice E. Kober, 43 - Lost to History No More - NYTimes.com
• Genome Biology | Abstract | Longitudinal, genome-scale analysis of DNA methylation in twins from birth to 18 months of age reveals rapid epigenetic change in early life and pair-specific effects of discordance
• Why 3D Printing Is Overhyped (I Should Know, I Do It For a Living)
• Whose genome is it anyway? | Inspiring Science
• Paternity testing: Personal genomics companies will reveal DNA secrets. - Slate Magazine

For what they were... we are

• Ancient West Siberian mtDNA
• Basque language: a criticism of Joseba Lakarra
• Ancient Minoan mtDNA
• Echoes from the past (May 17 2013)
• Maya pyramid destroyed in Belize... to get gravel
• Constructors invade major archaeological site in Istanbul with heavy machinery
• The human colonization of Australia and Near Melanesia
• 'Eurasian' language macro-family or just another bluff?
• New sublineages in Y-DNA haplogroups A3 and B2a
• South Arabian genetic refugium

The Spittoon

• For Your Eyes Only
• A Day For Family History And DNA
• Coursera?s Useful Genetics Wows
• Talking About Breast Cancer Risk
• What Patients Say Works for Anxiety

The Inductivist

• An increase in skepticism among young people?
• Desire for revenge, not anger, helps explain why men are more physically aggressive
• Sexual people overperceive flirtatiousness in others
• The South and sexual perversity
• Science Left Behind
• Sexual people are more likely to be victims and perpetrators of sexual harassment
• National differences in female partner violence
• Working memory training does not improve IQ
• Early birds have the best temperament profile
• Falling teen pregnancy and abortion

The Audacious Epigone

• Stabbing through the shroud at welfare and drug usage
• Fruitcakes and fertility
• Bureaucratic partisanship
• More men than women harassed in the military, often by other men
• Momma's in the kitchen, daddy's in the field
• Music and class
• Hatefact of the day
• Game and moral foundations
• Door's open, come on in
• Foaming feminists

Lion of the Blogosphere

• Progression to the outliers
• Computers for children?
• How to be successful without going to college
• David Karp?s mother
• John Maynard Keynes: a very evil guy
• NY Times says that immigration is bad for the immigrant
• Dzhokhar Tsarnaev not very smart
• Is Catholicism now a communist religion?
• Benghazi and the IRS
• Let us eat salt

Why Evolution is True

• Insect photography workshop in Belize
• Lee Strobel endorses Ball State?s teaching of creationism in a science class
• Atheist tornado survivor refuses to thank the lord
• Soul song week: 4. You?re All I Need to Get By
• Oy, is it hot!
• Two math posers
• Squirrel update
• USA Today reports on Ball State creationism class
• Local paper reports on Ball State creationism class; Ball State weasels, citizens support teaching creationism
• Soul song week: 3. ?Heat Wave? and ?Nowhere to Run?

Future Pundit

• Asteroid Impact Caused Younger Dryas Cooling Period?
• The Tissue Engineered $325,000 Burger
• Endangered Javan Leopards Caught On Camera
• Hannu Rajaniemi And Malthusian Catastrophe In Cyberspace
• Mars Colony: Asteroid Threat
• Anyone Else Want Metallic Skin?
• Adrian Raine On The Criminal Mind
• Better Cellular Trash Removal Can Extend Lives?
• Humans To Become Space Aliens
• Nanoparticles Control Insulin Release For Days

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

• Congruence of Additive and Non-Additive Effects on Gene Expression Estimated from Pedigree and SNP Data
• HDAC7 Is a Repressor of Myeloid Genes Whose Downregulation Is Required for Transdifferentiation of Pre-B Cells into Macrophages
• ATM?Dependent MiR-335 Targets CtIP and Modulates the DNA Damage Response
• The Secretory Pathway Calcium ATPase PMR-1/SPCA1 Has Essential Roles in Cell Migration during Caenorhabditis elegans Embryonic Development
• High-Resolution Transcriptome Maps Reveal Strain-Specific Regulatory Features of Multiple Campylobacter jejuni Isolates
• Clathrin and AP2 Are Required for Phagocytic Receptor-Mediated Apoptotic Cell Clearance in Caenorhabditis elegans
• Human Genetics in Rheumatoid Arthritis Guides a High-Throughput Drug Screen of the CD40 Signaling Pathway
• Bck2 Acts through the MADS Box Protein Mcm1 to Activate Cell-Cycle-Regulated Genes in Budding Yeast
• The Majority of Primate-Specific Regulatory Sequences Are Derived from Transposable Elements
• The Specificity and Flexibility of L1 Reverse Transcription Priming at Imperfect T-Tracts

Science Daily: Genetics News

• Fast new, one-step genetic engineering technology
• Norway spruce genome sequenced: Largest ever to be mapped
• How immune system peacefully co-exists with 'good' bacteria
• Drought makes Borneo's trees flower at the same time
• DNA damage: The dark side of respiration
• Mechanism discovered which aids Legionella to camouflage itself in the organism
• Minus environment, patterns still emerge: Computational study tracks E. coli cells' regulatory mechanisms
• Bacterium uses natural 'thermometer' to trigger diarrheal disease, scientists find
• Single-cell transfection tool enables added control for biological studies
• Small but speedy: Short plants live in the evolutionary fast lane

PLoS ONE: Genetics and Genomics

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

• Sneak Peek of AncestryDNA's New Search Filter
• Last Chance for Early Bird Pricing for June 6th "Family History and DNA:Genetic Genealogy in 2013" Conference
• Happy DNA Day! (Celebrate with FTDNA's sale or 23andMe's multi-kit discount!)
• DNA Makes a Splash at RootsTech 2013!
• Family Tree DNA's DNA Day Sale Starts Now!
• Join "Your Genetic Genealogist" at Chula Vista Genealogical Society's Spring Seminar on Saturday, March 30th
• Family Tree DNA Announcements: New Pricing, New Staff and a Discovery
• AncestryDNA, Raw Data and RootsTech
• Citizen Science Helps to Rewrite the Y Chromosome Tree and Illuminate the Ancestral Roots of African American Project Members
• Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. joins Dr. Spencer Wells as Headline Speakers for "Family HIstory and DNA: Genetic Genealogy in 2013"

Reaction Norm

• Hiatus
• Everything I think about #BRAINI
• The well-measured bean
• So crazy it just might work
• Cumulative advantage and the Hall of Fame
• Skip to 11:02
• The 50 sexiest values in this dataset
• Science
• Science and celebrity
• Some good some bad at AAAS

Genetiker

• F4 ratio estimation confirms Nordic admixture in Amerindians
• The cause of homosexuality
• K = 16 admixture analysis of Mongoloids
• K = 17 admixture analysis of Amerindians
• Japanese are part proto-Nordic
• K = 4 admixture analysis of all HGDP Amerindian samples
• Preliminary subracial analysis of the Caucasoid admixture in Karitiana sample HGDP00995
• Amerindians have significant Caucasoid admixture, while most Europeans do not have significant Mongoloid admixture
• K = 5 craniometric admixture analysis
• The White Gods

Malagasy Ancestry Project

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

The Jatt Gene

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?

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

Gene Expression