Neandertal similarity in the HapMap samples
This post is from 2012 and the results here are no longer current. Readers can find more current information about Neandertal introgression in later posts.
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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...
SNPtastic India
The cover story in Nature this week is a paper about the population history of India, from David Reich’s lab. It’s an important contribution to our knowledge...
Spatial variation and near-fixed selected alleles
I couple of people have asked me about a new paper in PLoS Genetics by Graham Coop and colleagues, titled, “The role of geography in human adaptation.” The p...
Mutual information between strings of loci
Fourth in a series on mutual information and genetic linkage. If you’re happening upon it for the first time, you can find the entire s...
Ceci n'est pas un pothole
In 2005 I wrote this:
When genetic drift reduces entropy
This is the third in a series on information theory and tests for recent selection. The first post, “Information theory: a short ...
Ascertainment into the future, what worth datasets?
A reader helpfully pointed me to a new paper in PNAS that looks at the sampling scheme of the 1000 Genomes Project from the point of view of SNP discovery. T...
Information theory and mutual information between genetic loci
This is the second in a series on information theory and tests for recent selection. The first entry, "Information theory: a short introduction" reviewed the...
Positive selection and the tip of the iceberg
Razib points to a new paper by Johansson and Gyllensten, in which they develop a comparison of FST and haplotype block length as a test of positive selection...
Information theory: a short introduction
I lectured this week in my Biology of Mind course about information theory, and in particular the concept of Shannon entropy. I’ve typed up a few notes...
David Goldstein profile
Nicholas Wade profiles Duke University geneticist David Goldstein in the current NY Times. This article covers several different topics that are worth commen...