On Genetics

Occasional comments on genetics, genomics and gene expression by Steve Mount. For news and shorter, more timely, posts see "News on Genetics."

Tuesday, July 11, 2006

Shared bookmarks for the literature -- what to do?

After some initial skepticism , I agree that "social bookmarking" is nice. It's very useful to put bookmarks to the literatur...

Friday, May 12, 2006

The genetic architecture of complex traits: significant differences can involve noncoding DNA and can be epistatic

Clark et al., in "A distant upstream enhancer at the maize domestication gene tb1 has pleiotropic effects on plant and inflorescent ar...

Wednesday, March 08, 2006

From HapMap to selection map

It was the article by Nicolas Wade in the New York Times ( "Still Evolving, Human Genes Tell New Story" ) that alerted me to the n...

Wednesday, August 24, 2005

Alternative splicing and host defense in flies and plants

In an article appearing online in Science this week, and discussed in The Scientist , Watson et al. ( PubMed ) implicate the Drosophila Dsc...

Tuesday, August 16, 2005

Nature Genetics and the Mid-Atlantic Plant Molecular Biology Society Conference

There is always something interesting in Nature Genetics, but the July issue seems especially rich. Postdocs I appreciate this edito...

Friday, August 12, 2005

Global regulation of alternative splicing: starting with Nova

The global analysis of alternative splicing is complicated by the fact that standard microarrays, and even tiling arrays without junction ol...

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