Human Folly about “genetics”

Autism and evolution (hms.harvard.edu):
on #autism and #genetics: de novo duplications and deletions in Human Accelerated Regions are much more common among autistic children.
on 02016-10-03
Descendants of newfoundlands extinct Beothuk live on in Iceland (blogs.canoe.com):
The Beothuk tribe died out on Newfoundland on 1829-06-06, having numbered only a few hundred when John Cabot arrived, but a thousand years ago, maybe one or a few of them went to #Iceland with Leif Eriksson’s followers, because a new mitochondrial DNA variant C1e of the North American haplogroup C1 is found today among Icelanders. #history #genetics
on 02016-10-03
Item (news.ycombinator.com):
discussion of #syn3.0 #genetics #biology
on 02016-06-22
20160324 in newly created life form a major Mystery (quantamagazine.org):
The J. Craig Venter Institute has created “JCV-syn3.0”, a reduced Mycoplasma mycoides with only 473 genes in 531 kilobases, of which they know the functions of two thirds; this is simpler than the simplest known autonomous natural life, Mycoplasma genitalium, which has 525 (?) genes. Its doubling time is about 180 minutes. #genetics #syn3.0 #biology
on 02016-06-22