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Another Genetic Quirk of the Solomon Islands: Blond Hair

Saturday, May 5th, 2012

NYT
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/08/science/another-genetic-quirk-of-the-solomon-islands-blond-hair.html?

Science paper
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/336/6081/554

From SB: It is always cool to associate a variant to a clear phenotype ( even it it isn’t the causal variant).

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DNaseI sensitivity QTLs are a major determinant of human expression variation : Nature : Nature Publishing Group

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature10808.html
Nice complement to large-scale RNA-seq survey

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Accurate inference of transcription factor binding from DNA sequence and chromatin accessibility data

Tuesday, May 1st, 2012

http://genome.cshlp.org/content/21/3/447.long

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Is Stanford Too Close to Silicon Valley? : The New Yorker

Tuesday, May 1st, 2012

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/04/30/120430fa_fact_auletta
ends with a discussion of distance learning

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“My girl left me for another Edward Hopper painting.” – New Yorker Cartoon Poster Print by Michael Crawford

Tuesday, May 1st, 2012

http://www.condenaststore.com/-sp/My-girl-left-me-for-another-Edward-Hopper-painting-New-Yorker-Cartoon-Prints_i8770829_.htm

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