Around the Web - December 13th, 2010

Estimating Heritability Using Twins. Luke Jostins lays out the A's, E's, and C's. Very informative. This part was kind of funny though: "Interestingly, the Bioscience Resource Project post cites this paper, which makes their mistake somewhat surprising." Wonder if Luke is making a reference to the tendency for people not to read papers they cite too closely. The cell is a messy place: understanding alternative splicing with RNA sequencing. Another of the talks about a paper they just published in PLoS Genetics. One of the Sweden Bombs Exploded Prematurely. Looks like Sweden dodged a bomb here, more or less. But ~5% of Sweden's population is Muslim (culturally or by practice), mostly from Middle Eastern countries. It cancels some of Sweden's historic military neutrality out when you bring populations recently subject to political disturbance into the nation. I say some because Britain has recently combined worst of both worlds, importing in ...