Emil O. W. Kirkegaard blog
Reading up on the huge animal breeding literature gives a useful background to one’s thinking about what selection on humans will do in the future (embryo selection and direct editing á la CRISPR). I made the above infograph some time ago, maybe 1-2 years. It is still pretty accurate. The newest data for genome sequencing…
Continue ReadingIn trying to merge some data, I was confronted with a problem of matching up strings where the author had mutilated them. He had done so in two ways: cutting them off at the 8th character or using personal abbreviations. The first one is relatively easy to deal with. The second one is not. So…
Continue ReadingJohn Fuerst suggested that I write a meta-analysis, review and methodology paper on the S factor. That seems like a decent idea once I get some more studies done (data are known to exist on France (another level), Japan (analysis done, writing pending), Denmark, Sweden and Turkey (reanalysis of Lynn’s data done, but there is…
Continue ReadingA recent paper informs us that we have now found a small number of SNPs that explain skin color in European samples. In the International Visible Trait Genetics (VisiGen) Consortium, we investigated the genetics of human skin color by combining a series of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in a total of 17,262 Europeans with functional…
Continue ReadingMany airports have free wifi services. The problem with these is that they are time-limited, usually to 1 to 3 hours. This can be very annoying if one is stuck in an airport for an extended period, as I am right now. Non-technical solution If you have spent your time on one device, you can…
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