Daily Archive: June 26, 2009

Jun 26 2009

No laws, no rules, just life

To everyone saying “rule of threes” with regard to Michael Jackson, Ed McMahon and Farrah Fawcett: there is no rule. It’s all selection bias, and nobody, no matter how well trained, is immune, because our brains are not computers. Thank you Stephanie. I’m going to point a few people around the office to this post-haste. …

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Jun 26 2009

Evidence published for autism genetics link!

And what evidence it is. In summary, we have performed a high resolution genome-wide analysis to characterize the genomic landscape of copy number variation in ASDs. Through comparison of structural variation in 1,771 ASD cases and 2,539 controls and prioritization of events encompassing exons we identified more than 150 loci harboring rare variants in multiple …

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