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A key reminder of SARS-CoV-2 cases; in March/April the testing depth and testing criteria was far far lower - so different to now as one should mentally split away graphs
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People's intuition about how "human genetics" works (how DNA variation is distributed around people around the world) and how it relates to "ethnicity" (the boxes people tick when asked to
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I want to step back and give some thoughts about the Coronavirus developments this week and some sense of the 3 months ahead from my perspective. Context: I am an
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The new SARS-CoV-2 test from @nanopore, LamPORE is going live in the NHS this month - here is the news page on this from nanopore. https://nanoporetech.com/about-us/news/oxford-nanopore-technologies-partners-uk-government-roll-out-lampore-n
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A perspective on SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19, on what I consider a positive day in the pandemic: Firstly a reminder; this virus is highly infectious and causes a severe, often fatal,
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A reminder: Ethnicity is something you tick on form with a series of boxes ("White, British", "Afro-Caribbean", "British Asian", "African-American", "Deutsch-Türken"). Genetics and genomics
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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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Brilliant thread here. We need a big collider bias Klaxon we can all hit. If you have never done hand to hand combat with trying to make causal inference from
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I love London, and my family, and chatting to my wife, running along the Parkland walk, walking across Hampsted Heath, chatting to my parents over zoom ...but... I'd like to
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COVID19 and molecular - mainly Genomics + Genetics research. Some big picture thoughts First off, understanding the disease this virus causes is important. It is clear that it has very
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I am re-activating my twitter and twitter is an unhappy place, perhaps unsurprisingly given COVID19. Organising my thoughts a little here: For the people who want to do armchair between
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Just to head this off from the start - the differential level of BAME COVID19 infection and severity (currently my understanding is higher both in UK and US) almost certainly
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