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Visualization of journal profiles
Gaston Sanchez has made a remarkable web site that compares the profiles of different genetic journals. For example, this is the word cloud for Genetics: Perhaps we should rename the journal to the...
View ArticleDo the genes belong to the tribal council?
There has been lot of debate about tribal consent since the publication of the first aboriginal genome. Nature ran a news story debating issues regarding tribal and individual consent for genetic...
View ArticleAdaptation in response to the local pathogenic environment
Matteo Fumagalli, our local pendant to Marcello Mastroianni, published a new paper in PLoS Genetics arguing that the pathogenic environment is the strongest driver of local adaptation in humans. He...
View ArticleViolence and hope at UC Berkeley
The last few days at UC Berkeley has been an educational and emotional journey for many of us. On Wednesday we witnessed a sadly violent police response to a peaceful and orderly student protest...
View ArticleSymposium on Human Genome Variation at UC Berkeley on 1/13/2011.
We are arranging a symposium on Human Genome Variation at UC Berkeley, for which we have secured a stellar line-up of speakers including Noah Rosenberg, Elaine Ostrander, Andy Clark, Kelly Frazer,...
View ArticleBirgeneau Discovers YouTube
Birgeneau just came back from his trip to Seoul, Tokyo and Shanghai. He writes in an email sent out to the entire campus: “It was only yesterday that I was able to look at a number of the videos that...
View ArticleDienekes’ Outrage
Some of the radicalized youth in my group made a post on this blog on their experiences with the Occupy movement in Oakland and in Berkeley – something I had encouraged them to do as I felt other...
View ArticleRacial biases in the use of forensic DNA
A postdoc in the group, Rori Rohlfs, has published a paper in PLoS Genetics on familial identification in forensic genetics. When a DNA sample has been obtained from a crime scene, it is common...
View ArticleClarence Thomas got it right!
I know – that’s a first. The supreme court made a wise and unanimous decision on the Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics case. You can no longer patent a gene. However, the supreme...
View ArticleWhy do African-Americans have increased cholesterol levels?
There is a well-established difference in cholesterol levels between Americans of European and African descent. In particular African Americans generally have higher HDL levels. HDL is known as the...
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