Finding more Neandertal genes, chromosome 19 edition
When I last wrote about the Neandertal genome, I showed that across the X chromosome, Europe and China have different Neandertal genes. There is overlap betw...
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Europe and China have different Neandertal genes
When last we saw the Vi 33.16 X chromosome, I was wresting out its secrets by looking for SNP haplotypes shared by this Neandertal with the European and Afri...
ADMIXTURE step-by-step howto
Razib Khan runs through an analysis of genetic data using ADMIXTURE, step by step. It’s a really worthwhile read, essential DIY genomics.
Neandertal segments of X chromosomes
Last year, this Neandertal genome came out. No doubt you’ve heard about it. So maybe by now you’re wondering where the new science is that’s being done on th...
Genetics and archaeology, 2
I’ve just received the book, Climate Change in Prehistory: The End of the Reign of Chaos, by William Burroughs. I’ll be reading it and reviewing it during th...
Is there a common coding variant of FOXP2 in southern Africa?
Today I was looking through the online data files for the South African genome. Those online files are available from the Data Libraries entry of the Galaxy ...
Online toolkits – the good and the frustrating
In pursuit of my DIY genomics posts, I’ve been playing around with the Galaxy bioinformatics web tools. The team responsible for the South African genomes pu...
What do you do with all these genomes?
I’m teaching a class right now in which the students are tackling this very issue: We’re getting an awful lot of new genomic data from living humans. What ca...