race/history/evolution notes

As mentioned elsewhere by Tuuli Lappalainen, a new analysis of Northern European genome-wide SNP data is available today at PLoS One (...

This paper ("Calculating expected DNA remnants from ancient founding events in human population genetics"; provisional PDF ) conc...

Frequencies of the DRD2*A1 allele are about twice as high in Africans and Asians as in Europeans. The AP reports today: WASHINGTON - Dr...

Part-time GNXP houseboy / full-time mestizo failfuck "birch barlow" attributes his problems with alcohol and crack cocaine to ...

Guessedworker claims : As for any attempt to reify Germans over Slavs, Englishmen over Irishmen, Nordics over Alpines and Mediterreneans, t...

Y DNA and surnames in Britain : Dr King’s research showed that between two men who share the same surname there is a 24% chance of sharing ...

This ( provisional PDF ) looks interesting. The not-unexpected conclusion seems to be that deltas between populations are larger when consi...

More ASHG 2008 : Frequency distribution and selection in 4 pigmentation genes in Europe . M. P. Donnelly, W. C. Speed, J. R. Kidd, A. J. Pa...

An ASHG 2008 poster abstract on the People of the British Isles project: T he need for a well characterised UK Control Population . B. Wi...

Customers of deCODE and 23andMe may have noticed that deCODE seems to overestimate non-European ancestry in European-descended people. A 23a...

Another ASHG 2008 abstract: Inferring Human Population Structure: STR or SNP? S. Xu1, L. Jin1,2 1) Chinese Academy of Sciences and Max Pl...

Another blow to Peter Frost's goofy-ass theories . One interpretation of these results is that there is strong evidence for an unequal ...

Via Dienekes , another ASHG 2008 abstract. This research seems to reproduce earlier findings of separate, distinct clusters among "Euro...

Recent papers using genome-wide SNP data have indicated higher levels of haplotype diversity in Southern vs. Northern Europe. The authors ha...

Selective Breeding for a Behavioral Trait Changes Digit Ratio : The ratio of the length of the second digit (index finger) divided by the f...

Update (9/14/08): Vanishing American comments ; full text (pdf, final version). The surprising results : New York is home to the most n...

The perceived associations of the participants in this study are reminiscent of--though not identical to--the associations argued for by She...

I make no endorsement, but this may be of interest to some. 23andMe Democratizes Personal Genomics With New Analytical Platform 23andMe i...

BBC article : Page last updated at 07:05 GMT, Wednesday, 3 September 2008 08:05 UK Women pick men who look like dad Women tend to choos...

The New Scientist article on the work of Novembre et al. asserts the following (my emphasis): By reading single-letter DNA differences in...