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John Hawks
johnhawks
Love to see this new work from @fleventy5 @jfkelso @maxplanckpress outlining Neandertal and Denisovan Y chromosomes. New evidence of genetic mixture of Neandertals and third population closer to today's people.
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Rapanui Pioneers Society
RapanuiPioneers
There seems to be a lot of fuzz about this article. Good thing @carlzimmer added the input of @MatisooSmith, renowned geneticist, and Pat Kirch and @HaunaniKane, real experts in Polynesia.
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James Thompson
JamesPsychol
Experts, intelligence, racehttp://www.unz.com/jthompson/experts-intelligence-race/ Academia makes a tradition out of slowness: the last survey on this matter was in 1988. By this reckoning the next survey will be in 2052. No
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DOCTOUR
wakawaka_doctor
This thread was very educative. You should read but let me share what I think.A Thread on intelligence. Enjoyhttps://twitter.com/wakawaka_doctor/status/1297930894246895617 Is intelligence determined by genetics?Like most aspects of human be
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Gavin
ghostflaneur
I see the fash are discussing the "Irish ethnicity" thing again.Irish ethnicity is a fantasy, its a piece of wank fic to imagine into life a sort of eternal "nation"
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Kevin Mitchell
WiringTheBrain
Towards Reproducible Brain-Wide Association Studies https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.08.21.257758v1 (thread follows...) This is a really interesting and important paper showing that very large samples are required to get reliabl
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Peter Aldhous
paldhous
THREAD: I spent almost a decade fighting a libel action to bring you this story. I hope it helps prevent further harm.https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/dna-paternity-test-health-genetic-center-libel 2/ In December 2010, afte
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Trevor Bedford
trvrb
This article by @USATODAY misleadingly states that there are "8 strains of coronavirus" circulating. Because of this our @nextstrain inbox is today full of questions like "if you get one
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Aishwarya Arjunan, MS, MPH, CGC,CPH (she/her/hers)
aishuarjun
Now it's time to talk about my favorite topic. Expanded Carrier Screening. E05. Let's go #NSGC20 Both Katie & Blair highlight that ethnicity based carrier screening is not adequate and
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Bryce Nofomo
BryceWeiner
I honestly wonder what combination of medications and genetic disorders create the perfect storm of mental acuity to think that:* Bill Gates wants to kill you* BLM is secretly funded
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Vincent Rajkumar
VincentRK
There are at least 4 possible reasons why some people with COVID have little or no symptoms.1) A rapid immune response that conquers the virus2) Pre-existing cross reactive immunity3) Genetic
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Ewan Birney
ewanbirney
I totally love the GnomAD papers here, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2308-7 but I want to get ahead of the almost inevitable quoting /showing of Figure1 as "showing there is genetic support for ethnic
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Doctor-Baron 17cShyteposter, DDS
17cShyteposter
Here's the thing (prepare for potential sperg-out, but you asked)Dysgenics runs deeper than racial differences. It hits *all* races. So while denial of differences might reinforce the machine of dysgenics,
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Carl T. Bergstrom
CT_Bergstrom
1. A few weeks ago, several Italian doctors made quite a stir in the news. They claimed that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus was "losing potency", and hinted at genetic changes in
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Ann Coates
setoacnna
Thread; Cervical screening myths & facts. Myth: Cervical screening is a test for cancer. Cervical screening is now initially a test for HPV. That's because MOST (not all) cancers are
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george davey smith
mendel_random
Below is the start of a thread by a geneticist on discovering that the most extreme single genetic variant he can find in @GWASCatalog actually tells you about the huge
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