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A Single Main Migration Across Bering Strait?
The web is abuzz over a new publication in PLoS Genetics about a single main migration across Bering Strait. From what I can tell, this new paper, “Genetic Variation and Population Structure,”...
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On Human Genetic Variation and Human Identity
The breakthrough of 2007, as announced by AAAS, the nonprofit organization that publishes Science, is human genetic variation. Human genetic variation has been studied for quite sometime and the...
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1,000 Genomes Project announced, but is it really 1,000 genomes?
I welcome the news of the 1,000 human genome project that was announced a couple days ago eagerly. It is a really ambitious effort that will involve sequencing (parts of) the genomes of at least a...
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Two new studies on exploring methods to study the structure of the human genome
Two similar papers published the latest issues of Nature and Genome Research do high-resolution analyses of the structure of the human genome. They differ in methodology, but have some cool...
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Genetic, Geographic, And Linguistic Structure Of European Populations
Both Razib and Dienekes have put a posts about this new Current Biology paper, “Correlation between Genetic and Geographic Structure in Europe.” The authors of the paper compare the genetic make up of...
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Boost your Immune System: Breed with an Extinct Human Species
Last week at the Royal Society in London, research was presented suggesting that Neandertals not only interbred with H. sapiens sapiens, but that their genes were helpful to modern people moving out of...
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