#Genetic

DNA testing startups exist in a regulatory grey area for data privacy. Example: DnaNudge, a company which recommends products based on genetic traits with a retail store in central London.

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Some things I've learned in the past few days:1. A lot of people seem to be attached to the idea that black people have genetically evolved to be intellectually inferior

Eric Turkheimer

This, from @mendel_random and others. The authors show that correlations between genotype and phenotype (ie, heritability) can arise from at least 4 sources (there are more). Actual genetic causation is

#covid19 I am going to record a thread, by quoting some paragraphs fromhttps://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/covid-19-genetic-network-analysis-provides-snapshot-of-pandemic-origins "Variant ‘A’, most closely related to the virus found in both bats

Really nice work. Short thread follows https://twitter.com/snaqvi1990/status/1253088329014206464 This paper shows that even for the most proximal molecular traits - expression levels of a number of proteins - where a few

Happy to share my first solo academic article, a mini-review now out on preprints:https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202008.0289/v1Like the boggarts popularized by Rowling, non-genetic changes are rapid and reversible. One way they can im

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I saw an esthetician on here talk about acne being a genetic condition that needs to be maintained with topicals - I’m convinced “the experts” are paid to lie to

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A lil PSA for artists who make black characters with albinism: Albinism isn’t always paper white skin and platinum blonde hair, esp in darker skinned ppl \o/ also it is

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teens really do think ppl commonly in high stress situations in their mid-30s have that many gray hairs huh like it's understandable if you hc them having gray hairs at

We're looking to showcase 2021 Anthologies and Collections. There are so many books competing for attention, we want to do our part to help shine a spotlight.Have a collection out

Andrea Bellemare

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It keeps being debunked and it keeps coming back, but the new coronavirus wasn't created in a lab.I spoke with the senior author of a recent paper on this: "Nature

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I'm attending a 3 day webinar for people with my genetic disease. Lots of presentations on the myriad of cancers we'll most likely get, how to reduce risks, which specialists

Fionna O'Leary, 🕯🇪🇺

How genetic science helped expose a coronavirus outbreak in Iowa - Washington PostAbsolutely cracking story of a scientist who rolled up his sleeves and tracked the virus the State and

Rick W. A. Smith

Adding to @DarrylLeroux's amazing work here, my own analysis of the documentation provided to consumers from Accumetrics revealed multiple problems and inconsistencies.https://twitter.com/DarrylLeroux/status/1253752114498736128 First, large porti

So here's an email some coward sent my wife. Its in several parts.Personally, as an active big game hunter and target shooter, which requires considerable skill, and as a member

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Rakhigarhi excavation- 4470 BC.In Rakhigarhi genetic sample suggests Harappans were NOT carrying any genetic signatures from Iranian related ancestry.THUS IT REJECTS THE INVASION OR REPLACEMENT OF ARYANS.The genetic results also