Havasupai DNA consent case becomes a one-act play
The Scientist has a review of a one-act play, “Informed Consent”, by playwright Deborah Zoe Laufer: Review: Sacred Stories, Genetic Privacy Collide.
All posts tagged with genetic ancestry
"Ancestry is complicated and very messy"
Mark Thomas has a Guardian piece reacting to some recent genetics promotion in the UK: “To claim someone has ‘Viking ancestors’ is no better than astrology”....
A problem with communicating human genetic history
Vincent Plagnol in Genomes Unzipped last month wrote about a bad example of public communication of population genetics and DNA ancestry testing: “Exaggerati...
Mailbag: North and South China
I read with interest your post on: http://johnhawks.net/weblog/reviews/neandertals/pigmentation/neandertal-introgression-1000-genomes-style-2011.html
Postmodernists are genetic determinists?
An article in The Awl by Russell Brandom sighs disappointedly about commercially available personal genome testing (“Everything I Didn’t Learn From Taking A ...
Ancestry perspective from 23andMe
Stanford geneticist Joanna Mountain recounts some of the experience she brings to 23andMe in her role as Senior Director of Research: “Solving mysteries via ...
Open data genomics
Nature this week carries a story by Ewen Callaway titled, “The rise of the genome bloggers”. The main subject is Dienekes Pontikos, whose “Dodecad Ancestry P...
Genomes unzipped, ancestry revealed
Last week I linked to Genomes Unzipped participant Joe Pickrell (“Ancestry unzipped”), who was working through the ancestry calculations that made his genome...
Ancestry unzipped
One of the incredible benefits of the open source approach to genomics is that non-practitioners have a chance to see how interpretations are built. Sometime...
Good grief, the Neandertal test kits have been sent
Blaine Bettinger (the Genetic Genealogist) writes that some commercial test offerings are trying to sort out a way to tell you how Neandertal you are:
African-American mtDNA and regional populations of Africa
I’m attending a symposium on genetics and genealogy of the African Diaspora this morning. Fatimah Jackson is here giving a very interesting talk about her ge...
"The Human Family Tree"
We flipped the TV to the National Geographic Channel last night to watch “The Human Family Tree” special. I like the premise of testing the relations of peop...