#Phenotype

A quick poll for the evolution peeps. Is fitness a phenotype? For me "of course it isn't". Phenotype for me is the physical manifestation of the organism that determines its

Joel McGlothlin

How about this: of course fitness is a phenotype because you can measure it (with error) like any other phenotype and it is the product of an interaction of genes

To explain our rationale...COVID-19 seems to present as 2 phenotypes: initially high compliance with poor V/Q match and low recruitability, ‘dry’ lungs; versus subsequent low compliance, ‘wet’ lungs, potentially recruitable.

Jules Gill-Peterson

we are led in the vernacular to think of sex as fixed phenotype. however, the concept of sex refers to two things: phenotype *and* the processes that regulate that phenotype.

Samantha Pritchard

I feel like this statement is an outgrowth of privilege discourse. A white-passing person benefits from white privilege, sure. But structurally? They don’t have the same average generational wealth. The

After some conversations with a trainee, I've recognized at least 7 "academic phenotypes" based on underlying core professional goals. A thread, aimed primarily at junior researchers learning to navigate the

I stopped using “blackness is diverse” when I realized how much it’s used to reify racist 1 drop rule rhetoric. Globally, blackness is indeed diverse but still quintessentially AFRICAN or

dani prieto-alhambra

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A new preprint awaiting feedback from the @ohdsi @IMI_EHDEN #COVID19 collaboration: Phenotype and 30-day outcomes in an international cohort including >3.32 million people tested, and >219,000 tested+ for SARS-CoV-2 in

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

Observation. Since moving into the neurological disease field, I've found that many (reviewers!) feel that animal models need to precisely phenocopy human symptoms to be 'valid'. A brief thread on

This is a "cult leader" phenotype, people with this forehead have an unnatural ability to attract people in fanatical mannerAlso sv3rige (right pic) is a 100% baltic according to his

transgenda spenda

Black people can have NATURALLY blonde hair it’s not just a European phenotype! We are everything Listen to my podcast @DesiMeditations and donate to my org that helps black trans

Jean K. Rivera Irizarry

*** Our paper is finally out!! *** We found that adolescence is a critical period for social isolation stress in C57BL/6J mice, producing a hypersocial phenotype in both females and males. Click

ana de armas' bf

I finally find the 'want' of having a girlfriend, main short term goal now.searching for almost exclusively this phenotype aka a petite white bitch with dark hair and refined facial

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

Boswald Bollocksworth

Sprinting is a great exercise paradigm. Don’t do it enough. Easy to pull something so really want to warm up a lot.Flat out sprints like a tiger is chasing you