Emil Kirkegaard
@KirkegaardEmil
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Joined January 2012
I looked at the details of the white paper for the new embryo selection company, Herasight.
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RT @jeremykauffman: Judging individuals as individuals means you judge them by all available evidence. Evidence includes: age, gender, eth….
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RT @Ground_app: The class action lawsuit claimed Meta used data such as menstrual cycles, sexual activity, and fertility goals to support i….
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RT @cremieuxrecueil: This is amazing if true. Apparently airlines lose money being airlines. They make their money by dabbling in rewards….
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RT @arctotherium42: This is true but doesn't go far enough, because partisanship =/= policy. For instance, Asian Republicans tend to suppor….
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RT @HedgeDirty: The real joke here is that given the work being done with the Villa of the Papirii scrolls there is absolutely a real chanc….
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RT @michaelshermer: When medical journals like The Lancet recommend vaccines, masks, social distancing, during a pandemic, while simultaneo….
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RT @gen0m1cs: A new paper from Hofmeister et al., published today, explores another layer of our complex genetic architecture: parent-of-or….
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RT @Rbn_Hfmstr: 🚨 Our parent-of-origin study is out in @Nature ! 🧬.Maternal and paternal alleles can have distinct — even opposite — effect….
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Nature - A novel multistep strategy reveals how parent-of-origin effects shape complex traits in large-scale biobanks.
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RT @JesusFerna7026: Let me talk today about 🧽 sponge cities. When I discuss fertility decline, I often get the following comment:. “As the….
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Looking at phenotype associations, they were able to improve on previous results due mainly to better measurements of rare variants and certain entirely missing variants (that cannot be imputed from array data). Nothing too exciting, but it may be useful for the embryo selection
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In total, they found about ~1.5 billion genetic variations. For reference, the human genome is only ~3.2 billion loci long (~6.4b letters). Since most loci don't show variation, this must mean that many loci have multiple variants. Structural variants, generally ignored (hard to
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Despite the small number of Africans, a large number of the newly identified variants are seen just in them. This shows just how much genetic variation was lost due to the Out of Africa migration.
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The full WGS UKBB release is out. Because it is so large, it has thousands of various non-British groups, including ~9k Africans, ~3k Ashkenazis, ~2k East Asians.
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RT @VeryInsig: Japanese people got much richer between 1960 and 1990. Since then, with their birth rate lower, they have got richer still,….
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RT @arctotherium42: If Rasmussen's poll can be trusted, 2/3 of Ivy League graduates want to ban air conditioning, SUVs, and non-essential t….
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Capitalism doesn't care about your principles or ethics. It will bend the knee to whoever is currently demanding it. One of the issues with attempts at relatively pure libertarianism.
These business leaders are cowards. Don’t ever make the mistake of thinking they have souls again. Woke capital was just them bending the knee to power. This is the same.
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RT @SteveStuWill: Traditionally, social psychologists saw obedience as central to the conservative mindset. Recent research, however, sugge….
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