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Predicting height: the Victorian approach beats modern genomics
Yurii S Aulchenko, Maksim V Struchalin, Nadezhda M Belonogova, Tatiana I Axenovich, Michael N Weedon, Albert Hofman, Andre G Uitterlinden, Manfred Kayser, Ben A Oostra, Cornelia M van Duijn, A Cecile J...
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Predicting eye colour from genes
Fan Liu, Kate van Duijn, Johannes R. Vingerling, Albert Hofman, André G. Uitterlinden, A. Cecile J.W. Janssens, Manfred Kayser (2009). Eye color and the prediction of complex phenotypes from genotypes...
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Race and intelligence: the debate continues
I posted a while back on two duelling essays in Nature on the intensely controversial subject of whether scientists should be permitted to study group differences in cognition. Nature now has a series...
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Genes vs environment: a false dichotomy
Neuroscientists Sam Wang and Sandra Aamodt have a guest post on Olivia Judson’s NY Times blog discussing the complex interplay between genes and environment in the determination of personality traits....
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NIH offers $2 million to fund mapping of genetic variation to gene expression
GenomeWeb Daily News points to a new funding opportunity from the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) for researchers interested in studying the link between genetic variants and variation in the...
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Genetics of complex traits in Europeans and East Asians: similarities and...
Cho, Y., Go, M., Kim, Y., Heo, J., Oh, J., Ban, H., Yoon, D., Lee, M., Kim, D., Park, M., Cha, S., Kim, J., Han, B., Min, H., Ahn, Y., Park, M., Han, H., Jang, H., Cho, E., Lee, J., Cho, N., Shin, C.,...
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Chinese summer camp to offer genetic tests for IQ, athletic performance,...
CNN reports: At the Chongqing Children’s Palace, experts are hoping to revolutionize child-rearing with the help of science. About 30 children aged 3 to 12 years old and their parents are participating...
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23andMe presents novel genetic associations at American Society of Human...
It’s been an intensive week of genomics here at the American Society of Human Genetics meeting, and I haven’t been able to grab time to blog as much as I’d have liked. In fact there’s a whole load of...
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23andMe gets scooped on hair curl genes
Medland et al. (2009). Common Variants in the Trichohyalin Gene Are Associated with Straight Hair in Europeans. The American Journal of Human Genetics DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2009.10.009 A couple of weeks...
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What can you learn from a whole genome sequence?
A paper just released in the Lancet describes a thorough and integrated approach to squeezing as much clinically relevant information as possible out of a genome sequence. However, despite a...
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