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Radical Anthropology

More on #genomics, this is obviously crazy since the #world's #genetic #diversity is contained within #Africa. Yet African DNA is underrepresented! Oh dear, it should not be only African scientists noticing this.

'African scientists say the world is missing vital medical insights by ignoring the continent’s vast genetic diversity. Less than 2 percent of human genome sequencing worldwide comes from African populations.'

rfi.fr/en/africa/20250404-scie

RFI · Scientists warn African DNA is missing from the global genome mapBy RFI
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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

#Genetic data site #openSNP to close and delete data over #privacy concerns
openSNP, a platform for sharing genetic and phenotypic data, will shut down, and delete all user submissions over privacy concerns and risk of misuse by authoritarian governments.
Announced earlier this week by co-founder Bastian Greshake Tzovaras, who expressed concerns about how personal #genomics data is subject to abuse today and how fundamentally landscape has changed over the last 14 years.
bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu

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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

Seeds of #Schizophrenia May Be Planted in The Earliest Moments of Life
There's a window of time in our lives we've all passed through yet know little about: early #gestation. Researchers found a pair of #genetic deletions associated with schizophrenia that likely occur in that formative period. While genetic alterations need further validation, findings strengthen an emerging idea that schizophrenia aren't always inherited, yet may be acquired long before someone is born.
sciencealert.com/the-seeds-of-

ScienceAlert · The Seeds of Schizophrenia May Be Planted in The Earliest Moments of LifeThere's a window of time in our lives we've all passed through yet still know so little about: early gestation.
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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

#Genetic data repo #OpenSNP to self-destruct before authoritarians weaponize it
The reason, according to #bioinformatics researcher Bastian Greshake Tzovaras, one of the founders of the project, is the dissolution of genetic testing biz #23andMe and the potential weaponization of genetic data by #farright #authoritarian regimes.
theregister.com/2025/04/01/ope

The Register · Genetic data repo OpenSNP to self-destruct before authoritarians weaponize itBy Thomas Claburn
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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

Sunsetting #openSNP - a retrospective by Bastian Greshake Tzovaras
In 2025, Bastian's "view is a lot more sober (and bleaker): Today it seems clear to me that the biggest impact on improving #health - even in the rich, allegedly ‘developed’ nations - would come from providing #food security and access to stable housing. And not from trying to find #genetic confounders of common #diseases that are a lot more rooted in those environmental & societal factors."
tzovar.as/sunsetting-opensnp/

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Bastian Greshake TzovarasSunsetting openSNP - a personal retrospectiveAs this blog post is being published, we are sending out emails to all openSNP users with some news: OpenSNP will be turned off – and with that also delete all the data stored on it – on April 30, 2025. Given that the project has been part of my...
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Aethelflaed

#science #cats #genetic

A new cat colour has been officially declared. If you are a cat person you may know that cats can be described by their colours such as tortoiseshell, seal point, or ginger. But now there is salmaik or 'salty liquorice'. This is recessive and involves the cat having fur which is black close to the body, but the hair strand changes to white as it approaches the tip. Looking at the genomes it was ascertained that this was a new colour variation. popularmechanics.com/science/a

Popular Mechanics · A New Cat Color Is Defying Genetic ExpectationsBy Jackie Appel
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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

Adventures in the #genetic time machine
Ancient #DNA is telling us more and more about humans and environments long past.
Could it also help rescue the future?
Thanks to a few well-funded labs like the one in Copenhagen, the #gene time machine has never been so busy. There are genetic maps of saber-toothed cats, cave bears, and thousands of ancient humans, including Vikings, Polynesian navigators, and numerous Neanderthals.
technologyreview.com/2025/02/1

MIT Technology Review · Adventures in the genetic time machineBy Antonio Regalado
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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

How to Delete Your 23andMe Data instructions by #EFF
This week, the #genetic testing company 23andMe filed for #bankruptcy, which means the genetic data the company collected on millions of users is now up for sale. If you do not want your data included in any potential sale, it’s a good time to ask the company to delete it. eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/how-

Electronic Frontier Foundation · How to Delete Your 23andMe DataThis week, the genetic testing company 23andMe filed for bankruptcy, which means the genetic data the company collected on millions of users is now up for sale. If you do not want your data included in any potential sale, it’s a good time to ask the company to delete it. When the company first...
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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

#DNA of 15 Million People for Sale in #23andMe #Bankruptcy
There is no way to know what a buyer will want to do with the reams of genetic information it has collected. Customers, meanwhile, still have no way to change their underlying #genetic data.
On Friday, the Attorney General in 23andMe's home state of California issued a consumer alert advising customers to delete their data from the site given the company's "reported financial distress."
404media.co/dna-of-15-million-

404 Media · DNA of 15 Million People for Sale in 23andMe BankruptcyThere is no way to know what a buyer will want to do with the reams of genetic information it has collected. Customers, meanwhile, still have no way to change their underlying genetic data.
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