Daily Data Dump - Friday

Have a good weekend. The ratio of human X chromosome to autosome diversity is positively correlated with genetic distance from genes. This is in my RSS, but not on the Nature site, so here's the snip I have: "The ratio of X-linked to autosomal diversity was estimated from an analysis of six human genome sequences and found to deviate from the expected value of 0.75. However, the direction of this deviation depends on whether a particular sequence is close to or far from the nearest gene. This pattern may be explained by stronger locally acting selection on X-linked genes compared with autosomal genes, combined with larger effective population sizes for females than for males." Looks interesting. Journal: Hauser fabricated data. Scientists can be "too big fail" it seems. Epistasis: Obstacle or Advantage for Mapping Complex Traits? They argue that it's an advantage, and you can squeeze more juice by taking ...