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A great list of freely available lectures in mostly genetics by the Broad Institute.

A great list of freely available lectures in mostly genetics by the Broad Institute.

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"Past videos of the Primer on Medical and Population Genetics series are freely available for viewing by clicking one of the links below. The talks are geared toward a wide audience, including research technicians, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and established investigators just entering the field"

Past Primers | Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
2010-2011. 9/16/10, Introduction to complex trait genetics [ video ], David Altshuler, Director, Medical and Population Genetics Program, Broad Institute. 9/23/10, Genetics in Mendelian human disease …

A great list of freely available lectures in mostly genetics by the Broad Instit…

A great list of freely available lectures in mostly genetics by the Broad Instit…

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A great list of freely available lectures in mostly genetics by the Broad Institute. 

"Past videos of the Primer on Medical and Population Genetics series are freely available for viewing by clicking one of the links below. The talks are geared toward a wide audience, including research technicians, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and established investigators just entering the field"

Past Primers | Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
2010-2011. 9/16/10, Introduction to complex trait genetics [ video ], David Altshuler, Director, Medical and Population Genetics Program, Broad Institute. 9/23/10, Genetics in Mendelian human disease …


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Scary to see how MEPs like Verhofstadt explain the Dutch elections as an argument…

Scary to see how MEPs like Verhofstadt explain the Dutch elections as an argument…

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Scary to see how MEPs like Verhofstadt explain the Dutch elections as an argument that we actually became more pro-EU in the last 7 years (the year we voted against any further power increase at the EU, which in the end we got anyway in the Lisbon treaty) which is totally wrong.

The elections in the end, sadly, didn't go too-much about Europe but more about who people would like to see as minister president leading to a massive shift back from "extreme" against EU parties back to more central parties. 

It's utterly nonsense to claim (but what to expect from Verhofstadt who is the stereotype for what is wrong with the EU) we changed opinion or that the euro is the driving force of our economic growth (what growth?!). 

It's a sad fact that underbellies and non-factual nonsense is what is driving the politics of these kind of people.

HARDtalk: Guy Verhofstadt & Richard Ashworth – Members of the European Parliament
What is the European Union’s ultimate goal – to be a federal super-state?

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Funny QTL in the Pig QTL database, the genetic marker linked with good Bacon! Pretty…

Funny QTL in the Pig QTL database, the genetic marker linked with good Bacon! Pretty…

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Funny QTL in the Pig QTL database, the genetic marker linked with good Bacon! Pretty sure both +Christine Seeliger and +Nenad Bartonicek agree on us doing some replicate studies on this 😛 

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Pig QTL Database
QTL Map Information. Chromosome: 16. QTL Peak Location: n/a. QTL Span: 23 (cM). Upper, “Suggestive”: n/a. Upper, “Significant”: n/a. Peak: Lower, “Significant”: n/a. Lower, “Suggestive”: n/a. Analysis…

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Trying to understand language evolution by looking at genetic variation.

Trying to understand language evolution by looking at genetic variation.

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“It makes you wonder if they became isolated from one another for cultural reasons, or if there was some sort of geographical isolation that led to the differentiation,” says Sarah Tishkoff, a human-origins geneticist at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

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Two studies exploring the genetics of hunter-gatherers and pastoralists in sub-Saharan Africa, where humans are thought to have originated, reveal that even though the click-language peoples of southern Africa live in close proximity, they belong to two distinct genetic clusters.

African neighbours divided by their genes
Geographically close human populations in southern Africa have been genetically isolated for thousands of years.

Trying to understand language evolution by looking at genetic variation. 

Trying to understand language evolution by looking at genetic variation. 

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“It makes you wonder if they became isolated from one another for cultural reasons, or if there was some sort of geographical isolation that led to the differentiation,” says Sarah Tishkoff, a human-origins geneticist at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

#sciencesunday   #ScienceSunday   

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Two studies exploring the genetics of hunter-gatherers and pastoralists in sub-Saharan Africa, where humans are thought to have originated, reveal that even though the click-language peoples of southern Africa live in close proximity, they belong to two distinct genetic clusters.

African neighbours divided by their genes
Geographically close human populations in southern Africa have been genetically isolated for thousands of years.


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About me

I am a Lead Data Scientist at Microsoft in the World-Wide Data Insights CTO office focusing on cloud solutions for the Internet-of-Things, Big Data, Deep Learning, and Machine Learning. I obtained my PhD at the University of Cambridge specialising in Big Data Biology while being based at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL).

In my previous "academic life", I was working in Ewan Birney's research group. My main subject was understanding non-coding variation using genome-wide molecular assays, like FAIRE and CTCF, onto Human cell line populations. Another research interest was identification of whole-body phenotypes in Human MRI scans using Machine Learning techniques.

Furthermore, I'm the co-founder of Rijschoolvergelijker. The largest driving school comparison website in the Netherlands with European ambitions.

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