Be careful when studying selection based on polygenic score overdispersion
Peer Community in Evolutionary Biology,
b'How robust are cross-population signatures of polygenic adaptation in humans?Alba Refoyo-Mart\xc3\xadnez, Siyang Liu, Anja…
b'How robust are cross-population signatures of polygenic adaptation in humans?Alba Refoyo-Mart\xc3\xadnez, Siyang Liu, Anja…
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Nature and nurture are intertwined.
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Illustration by Daniel Fishel for BuzzFeed…
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When the human genome was sequenced in 2003, the expectation was that scientists, armed with a powerful array of new genetic…
This guest post is by Jeremy Berg [@JeremyJBerg] and Graham Coop [@Graham_coop] on their paper The Population Genetic Signature…
We (Jeremy and Graham) have a new arXived paper: “The Population Genetic Signature of Polygenic Local Adaptation” (arXived here).
Why do children resemble their parents? It’s a question that has intrigued people for millennia, and surprisingly, in spite of…
(I was going to make fun of this study but...um... then I noticed it was published in Nature. So...) Researchers from Children's…
The largest genome-wide association study ever undertaken was published in Nature this week. The appropriately named Genetic…