Tag: Genetic

The Alabama Supreme Court decided this week that frozen embryos are fully fledged human beings, entitled to the rights and protections that entails. Specifically, they decided, leaning more on scripture than science, that embryos are legal people and that damaging their viability, “killing&rdq...

Below is a simplified genetic breakdown of major Pakistani populations using modified Gedmatch-Harappa data. There are similar figures floating around online, but they tend to suffer from a couple of issues. Specifically, inadequate sampling of different Pakistani ethnicities, and lack of comparison...

The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has developed a “genetic priority score” (GPS) to transform the prioritization process in drug development. Published in Nature Genetics, this novel tool amalgamates various types of human genetic data into a single, comprehensive score. This t...

Using South Asian genetic samples run through the Harappa Calculator, I’ve constructed averages for various ethnic groups and castes across the Indian Subcontinent. Below is a quick guide on how to interpret the figures. S Indian: A signal representing the Ancestral Indians, who were t...

In a broader mathematical or computational perspective, an optimization problem is defined as a problem of finding the best solution from all feasible solutions. In terms of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, two significant algorithms that perform these tasks are Reinforcement Learning a...

Genetics does play a role in high blood pressure. Studies have identified over 100 genetic changes associated with high blood pressure. This means that carrying a certain set of genetic variants can increase your risk for this condition. Family history also plays a role in influencing this ...

DNA, deoxyribonucleic acid, is a marvel of nature. Comprising a double helix structure, DNA encodes the genetic information necessary for the development, functioning, and reproduction of all living organisms. The coherence of DNA is evident not only in its structural integrity but also in the preci...

Chaos Game Representation is a graphical representation of a sequence. It is a method of converting a long one-dimensional sequence (in our case a genetic sequence) into a graphical form. It is a novel holistic approach that provides a visual image of a DNA sequence quite different from the traditio...