An index of population structure (Fst) is used to test the null hypothesis that the genetic factor extracted from GWAS hits represents differences between populations due to migrations and drift...
Read ItADHD and general intelligence are negatively correlated (within populations) and this correlation is driven by common genetic variants shared between the two phenotypes. This paper analyzes the ...
Read ItWhen I finished my PhD 15 years ago, the neurosciences defined the main function of brains in terms of processing input to compute output: “brain function is ultimately best understood in terms of ...
Read ItThe following paper was published as recently as yesterday, but already caused a bit of a stir on social media. Let's see why. A new antibiotic kills pathogens without detectable resistanceLosee L....
Read ItIn December 2013, Stergachis and colleagues published a high-profile paper on the dual role Transcription Factors (TFs) might have as a consequence of their binding to protein coding regions. This ...
Read ItCancers are defined by abnormal karyotypes, displaying ever-changing structural and numerical abnormalities. Such plasticity of the karyotype underlies the evolution of cancer cells (Navin et al. ...
Read ItAvoid having to retract your genomics analysis. Biology is a data-science The dramatic plunge in DNA sequencing costs means that a single MSc or PhD student can now generate data that would have co...
Read ItUpon re-examination of large telomere datasets from healthy human populations, a downward secular trend in telomere length at birth was found. The authors theorized that relatively recent environme...
Read ItI did not find a lot of recent papers on indoor microbiology, but quite a couple on the microbiology of drinking and wastewater, and some on ballast, pharmacy, and oil-platform water. Since this bl...
Read ItA PDF of this paper without formatting errors can be downloaded here. Abstract I review recent findings in human behavioral genetics and their implications for selective breeding and estimation of ...
Read ItSex has long been an intriguing topic for biologists. Traditional sexual reproduction requires a large amount of energy and even more energy when we consider the time to find a right partner. That ...
Read ItAnyone who's spent any length of time in the tropics comes to develop an intimate relationship with Aedes aegypti, the domestic mosquito. Although everyone at some point has felt the red-raised itc...
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