Nature today published a paper which reports on a massive genome association study of the British white population with the intent of smoking out loci implicated in disease. The paper is open access, so you can read it yourself! There are many popular press articles, but as usual p-ter has a summary of the important points.
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For those of you interested in recent adaptive evolution in some insignificant bipedal primate, John Hawks and pals have published a paper in PNAS describing something you'll find interesting. Of course, if you're interested in such things, you already know that.
This critique of genome-wide association studies by Jon McClellan and Mary-Claire King in Cell is the latest salvo in a prolonged backlash against genome-wide association studies (GWAS).
Ever wonder what biobloggers are blogging about on their blogs? Here's what: