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This post is from 2012 and the results here are no longer current.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.
This post is from 2012 and the results here are no longer current.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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
In 2005 I wrote this:
This is the third in a series on information theory and tests for recent selection. The first post, “Information theory: a short ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Nicholas Wade profiles Duke University geneticist David Goldstein in the current NY Times. This article covers several different topics that are worth commen...