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ICHG2011: Debating the future of genome sequencing is medicine

Yesterday night at the International Congress on Human Genetics we had a debate, entitled “Current and Emerging Sequencing Technologies: Changing the Practice of Medical Genetics”. You can see the...

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ICHG2011: The state of play in complex trait sequencing

The International Congress of Human Genetics is rapidly approaching its conclusion (namely, my talk today at 3.15pm in Room 517, be there or be, I dunno, hanging out in Montreal I guess). For me, the...

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Students blogging the classical world

Everyone who reads blogs about biology know the number of grad students who write about their subject and their work. Obviously I’m massively in favour of this, both because it lets us reach a wider...

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Phantom heritability and additivity

Just out in prepublication at PNAS is a paper from Eric Lander’s lab, entitled, somewhat provocatively The mystery of missing heritability: Genetic interactions create phantom heritability. This...

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BoG2012: The long climb

Today is the first day of the 2012 Biology of Genomes conference at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories in New York. This is a fun conference as it has talks from across the range of genome biology, moving...

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BoG12: Sequencing single cells

The Biology of Genomes conference officially kicked off last night. Twitter coverage was strong as usual, and you can get a pretty detailed impression of all the talks by reading the #BoG12 hashtag. To...

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BoG2012: Smart study design for non-human complex traits

The second day of the Biology of Genomes conference is complete. In the morning we had the Genetics of Complex Traits session, followed by the poster session and the always exciting “Wine and Cheese...

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BoG2012: Digging deeper into genomic regulation

Day three of the Biology of Genomes conference is complete. The ELSI session about “Public Genomic literacy for the public” was pretty interesting, and taught us that Americans actually know far more...

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Some updates

A few updates about blogging and my career, for everyone who reads this blog to keep up with my news (hey mum!). The big paper Out this week in Nature is our new big paper on the genetics of...

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ASHG2012: Who does family studies?

The American Society of Human Genetics’ annual meeting has now kicked off in San Francisco. The usual terrifyingly large conference center, dizzying collection of stalls and posters as far as the eye...

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