Category Archives: Genetics

Svante Pääbo at the Society of Neuroscience Meetings

Posted on November 14, 2011 by Adam Van Arsdale

Carl Zimmer, writing at Discover, has a great piece on Svante Pääbo talking about Neandertals at a major neuroscience conference. Although I don’t agree with all of Zimmer’s characterizations, the piece is a nice primer on what we have learned … Continue reading →

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Your genome and you

Posted on November 10, 2011 by Adam Van Arsdale

More on personal genomics, as Razib Khan uses himself as an example of personal decision-making based on genomic data: It turns out that one locus determines most of the effect of this trait, and that locus has been genotyped in … Continue reading →

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You are who we say you are

Posted on October 27, 2011 by Adam Van Arsdale

Just a few days ago I said this about personal genomics: How we conceptualize who we are as biocultural people – composed of a unique combination of genetic material and occupying our own unique time and place in the world … Continue reading →

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Personal Genomics

Posted on October 24, 2011 by Adam Van Arsdale

Razib Khan, author of Gene Expression at Discover Magazine, has a post up analyzing the genetic ancestry of a Malagasy individual who identifies as Betsileo in ethnicity. By itself, the post is not that remarkable. Using publicly available genetic data … Continue reading →

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