Archive for the 'SciLit' Category
Clan Genomics and the Complex Architecture of Human Disease: Cell
June 25, 2015http://www.cell.com/cell/abstract/S0092-8674(11)01062-2?_returnURL=http%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0092867411010622%3Fshowall%3Dtrue
BMC Genomics | Full text | PacBio-LITS: a large-insert targeted sequencing method for characterization of human disease-associated chromosomal structural variations
June 25, 2015PacBio-LITS: a…targeted sequencing method for characterization of…disease-associated SVs
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/16/214 Capture reagent+@PacBio
Sequencing and analysis of genomic fragments from the NF1 locus. – PubMed – NCBI
June 25, 2015publication containing both F Collins & JC Venter!
Genome evolution during progression to breast cancer
June 25, 2015http://genome.cshlp.org/content/23/7/1097.long
Daniel E. Newburger1,6,
Dorna Kashef-Haghighi2,6,
Ziming Weng3,6,
Raheleh Salari2,
Robert T. Sweeney3,
Alayne L. Brunner3,
Shirley X. Zhu3,
Xiangqian Guo3,
Sushama Varma3,
Megan L. Troxell4,
Robert B. West3,7,
Serafim Batzoglou2,7 and
Arend Sidow3,5,7
Published in Advance April 8, 2013, doi:10.1101/gr.151670.112 Genome Res. 2013. 23:1097-1108
Genome Biology | Abstract | Fast and scalable inference of multi-sample cancer lineages
June 25, 2015A subway map of cancer pathways
June 21, 2015A subway map of #cancer #pathways
http://www.nature.com/nrc/poster/subpathways The cell cycle appears to be midtown. #DataViz via metaphor.
Visualizing virus assembly intermediates inside marine cyanobacteria : Nature : Nature Publishing Group
June 16, 2015Visualizing virus assembly…inside…bacteria
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v502/n7473/full/nature12604.html Phase-contrast #cryoET resolves subcellular structures (eg ribosomes)
Cryo-ET determines diff structural snapshots virus during assembly. One tomogram to work out whole pathway.
Wei Dai,
Caroline Fu,
Desislava Raytcheva,
John Flanagan,
Htet A. Khant,
Xiangan Liu,
Ryan H. Rochat,
Cameron Haase-Pettingell,
Jacqueline Piret,
Steve J. Ludtke,
Kuniaki Nagayama,
Michael F. Schmid,
Jonathan A. King
& Wah Chiu
Nature 502, 707–710 (31 October 2013) doi:10.1038/nature12604
Did natural selection make the Dutch the tallest people on the planet?
June 16, 2015Did natural #selection make the Dutch the tallest people on the
planet? http://news.sciencemag.org/biology/2015/04/did-natural-selection-make-dutch-tallest-people-planet Height spurt in last century not all nurture
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“This study drives home the message that the human population is still subject to natural selection,” says Stephen Stearns, an evolutionary biologist at Yale University who wasn’t involved in the study. “It strikes at the core of our understanding of human nature, and how malleable it is.” It also confirms what Stearns knows from personal experience about the population in the northern Netherlands, where the study took place: “Boy, they are tall.”
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“For many years, the U.S. population was the tallest in the world. In the 18th century, American men were 5 to 8 centimeters taller than those in the Netherlands. Today, Americans are the fattest, but they lost the race for height to northern Europeans—including Danes, Norwegians, Swedes, and Estonians—sometime in the 20th century.
Just how these peoples became so tall isn’t clear, however. Genetics has an important effect on body height: Scientists have found at least 180 genes that influence how tall you become. Each one has only a small effect, but together, they may explain up to 80% of the variation in height within a population. Yet environmental factors play a huge role as well. The children of Japanese immigrants to Hawaii, for instance, grew much taller than their parents. Scientists assume that a diet rich in milk and meat played a major role.
The Dutch have become so much taller in such a short period that scientists chalk most of it up to their changing environment. As the Netherlands developed, it became one of the world’s largest producers and consumers of cheese and milk. An increasingly egalitarian distribution of wealth and universal access to health care may also have helped.”
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