Daily Data Dump - Thursday

If you are a regular reader, and have not done so, please take the Summer 2010 Gene Expression survey. N = 300, so I'll stop buggin' now and start posting results in the next day or so. Ancient iceman's gene map underway. Does anyone have any inside dirt on Otzi? His mtDNA was an outgroup to any modern Europeans, but we know that there's sometimes a disjunction between mtDNA and autosomal results. Protecting consumers from their own genetic data will come at a cost. Regulations have costs. Sometimes those costs are worth it (and result in long-term gains due to buffering of short-term volatility and such). Vitamin D Deficiency Linked to Arterial Stiffness in Black Teens. There has been some concern about supplementation in colored people based on studies with whites, so this is important. Many people with darker-skins, including me, have been diagnosed with vitamin D deficiency and have ...