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echoblog: MAOA alleles and credit card debt?!
Image via Wikipedia pointer to: The Neurocritic’s coverage on the association of low-efficiency alleles of MAOA and credit card debt. Will there be a genotype box to check on future credit card...
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SLC1A1 SNPs as tiny deliveries on payment of big promise
Image via Wikipedia In their forecast “The World in 2010” special issue, the Economist points to “The looming crisis in human genetics” wherein scientists will reluctantly acknowledge that, even with...
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rs4680 helps me tonically ponder the Burger King menu and phasically choose...
One of the complexities in beginning to understand how genetic variation relates to cognitive function and behavior is that – unfortunately – there is no gene for “personality”, “anxiety”, “memory” or...
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Semaphorins integrate the sweetness and development of our cortical 6-layer cake
Image via Wikipedia For a great many reasons, research on mental illness is focused on the frontal cortex. Its just a small part of the brain, and certainly, many things can go wrong in other places...
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Feeling good about feeling bad
Just a pointer to a great book – The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow into Depressive Disorder by Allan V. Horwitz and Jerome C. Wakefield. Its an in-depth treatment on the...
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Economic externalities and genome sharing
If I pay to have my house fire-proofed, it creates a free economic benefit for my next-door neighbors. If I smoke and barbecue all day long, the smoke creates an economic risk or cost for those same...
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Is a gene that “explains less than one percent of the variation in life...
Nope. … from the debunking analysis: The key comparison here comes from the two extremes: 2 alleles vs. 0. People with 2 alleles are 4 percentage points (more precisely, 3.6 percentage points) more...
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Visualizing big money rivers flowing into the politics of healthcare
Over at Open Secrets, there are some great tools to “… investigate the cash flowing from well-heeled special interests within the health industries to your representatives, the committee members with...
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Genome discounts
Sign on the window reads, “10% off for rs1800497 TT“ … on account of the way their DRD2 receptors seem to be less responsive … which, naturally, makes them prone to needing to drink (buy) more to feel...
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The genetics of the economics of how people use genetic information. Neither...
The genetics of economics and economics of genetics are really freaky topics. On the one hand, we spend most of our lives making economic decisions … how to spend time? money? affection? You know,...
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