#Genomes

Pontus Skoglund

pontus_skoglund

"Our species is 200,000 years old"—many have heard the memes, but do we know?We review DNA and fossil records and argue that no birthplace & time is known, and may

Omer Weissbrod

oweissb

Woohoo, our paper on functionally-informed fine-mapping and polygenic localization is out in @NatureGenet. Here’s our evergreen explainer thread from last year: https://twitter.com/oweissb/status/1184915694040711168See below what was adde

Lucy van Dorp

LucyvanDorp

Piecing together what we know of the ‘new #variant’. This has been confirmed by COG-UK (https://tinyurl.com/ybfsqurf ) and PHE (https://tinyurl.com/yacjerx6 ) as a lineage of #SARSCoV2 carrying a set of mutations including

Dr. Banana García-Bastidas (PhD)

Ferchucky

#CarlLinnaeus assigned the scientific name Musa sapientum for dessert #bananas & Musa paradisiaca for plantains. However, he did not know that the two species he described were in fact hybrids

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

New preprint out. We investigated whether we could detect evidence for genetic recombination in #SARSCoV2, and found none to date. We used (slightly tweaked) standard statistical genetics methods, extensive simulations

Pieter Borger

BorgerPieter

Snopes' "fact checkers" are wrong about mRNA vaccins:https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mrna-alter-dna/Snopes, who claims to do fact checking, writes: "No, mRNA COVID vaccines do not alter your DNA". Snopes did not ev

National Geographic

NatGeo

There is a bit of misinfo going around that the coronavirus will weaken over time.No one knows for sure if that's true, as UW biologist @CT_Bergstrom has explainedhttps://twitter.com/CT_Bergstrom/status/1281388738895949825 I suspect

Veera M. Rajagopal

doctorveera

This is an ingenious paper. No doubt about that. But it is getting media attention for the wrong reasons. 1/8https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-020-00755-1 This paper is one of 100s of papers from deCODE

AVigilantEgyptian

AVigilantEgypt

The same people who dismiss the current Egyptians as being generally descendants of the ancient ones on the basis that they were not Muslims (as if the Arabs themselves were

MalariaGEN

malariagenomics

We're pleased to announce the release of mosquito genome variation data from phase 3 of the Anopheles gambiae 1000 Genomes project (Ag1000G). http://bit.ly/2ZoARE8 Some highlights and further info in this thread...

Izabelcavassim

izabelcavassim

Whether homologous recombination has a net beneficial or detrimental effect on adaptive evolution is largely unexplored in natural bacterial populations.https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.20.427438v1 We address this question by

Tanja Rothgangl

tanjarothgangl

Check out how we performed in vivo cytosine base editing using LNP mediated delivery and how we analyzed on- and off-target effects of this approach! It was a pleasure to

Social Justice Warlock

charllandsberg

CW: discussing TERF/transphobic ideologyOne of the major reasons TERF/transphobic ideology is so pervasive is that it presents the simplest wrong answer in contrast to a much more complicated correct answer.Let

Xihong Lin

XihongLin

The TOPMed flagship paper of 54K whole genome sequences finally appeared in @nature. Thanks for the hard work of many TOPMed colleagues. I am honored to work with many of

CSHO @ NYU

CSHO_NYU

Last night PhD candidate @TinaLasisi of Penn State University gave the latest CSHO colloquium webinar on her research regarding "genomes, phenomes and scientific narratives of racialized traits." We’ll provide a

Marc Daalder 😷 Wear a Mask, Scan QR Codes

marcdaalder

#BREAKING Ministry of Health says genome sequencing has linked one of yesterday's unlinked cases to a different variant of the virus than the current cluster. This variant was present in

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