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Category Archives: Genetics
Personal genetic testing gets celebrity treatment
Angelina Jolie has an op-ed in today’s NY Times about her decision to have a preventative double mastectomy. This decision came after watching her mother die as a result of breast cancer, and after having some personal genetic testing done: … Continue reading
Posted in Genetics
Tagged brca1, brca2, breast cancer, myriad, personal genetic testing
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Genomics: Knowledge is a constraint on knowledge
On Monday, the Supreme Court spent approximately an hour hearing oral arguments in the Association of Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc. case. This is a case with potentially landmark potential. At stake is the question of whether genes are … Continue reading
Posted in Genetics
Tagged gene patents, myriad, personal genomics
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Talking about data access at the 2013 AAPAs
This week is the annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists (AAPA), in Knoxville, Tennessee. My visit to this year’s meetings is going to be an abbreviated one, owing to the realities of leaving a 3-week old at … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Fossils, Genetics
Tagged #AAPA2013, data access, paleoanthropology
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Ten fingers, ten toes
One of the reasons I love teaching anthropology is that it is so easy to draw a direct connection between what we are studying the the real life experiences of my students. The actions of evolution are ubiquitous in the … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Genetics, Teaching
Tagged birth, ethics, pedagogy, personal genetic testing, personal genomics
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DNA is not “the 21st century fingerprint”
SCOTUSblog has a great recap of oral arguments this week at the Supreme Court in the case of Maryland v King (docket 12-207). At issue is whether or not the state, in this case the Maryland police, have the right … Continue reading
Posted in Genetics
Tagged DNA identification, forensic anthropology, genomic law, legal anthropology, Maryland v King
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Monday/Start of the semester links
During the break I was busy with typical holiday/break activities (including the first half of my daughter’s improbably exciting U11 girls’ basketball season) as well as a lot of intense reading/writing/research related activities. I’ll hopefully be blogging more about the … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Evolution, Genetics
Tagged genomics, links, mutation, paleo diet
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“with a morphology similar to present-day humans”
Hominins with morphology similar to present-day humans appear in the fossil record across Eurasia between 40,000 and 50,000 y ago. That is the opening line of an abstract from Fu, et al. (2013) detailing ancient DNA from ~40,000 year old … Continue reading
Posted in Fossils, Genetics
Tagged Ancient DNA, China, Late Pleistocene, modern human origins, Tianyuan Cave
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Crowd-sourcing my reading list
I am finalizing a new course for this upcoming semester that is focused on personal genomics. The class aims to simultaneously address two questions: What can personal genomic data tell us? What do we do with that information? The course … Continue reading
It’s a scale, scale, scale, scale world (part 2)
Following on my post from yesterday, I wanted to write a little more specifically about the significance of scale and our session at the AAAs. Paleoanthropological data are produced and address questions at different scales. Consider the following: Fossil – … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Archaeology, Evolution, Fossils, Genetics
Tagged #AAA2012, geographic scale, scale, temporal scale
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