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May
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awarded  Critic
May
4
asked can the face of a person be accurately predicted from DNA information?
Mar
24
awarded  Yearling
Jan
29
awarded  Vox Populi
Jan
24
revised Why are there exactly four nucleobases in DNA?
added 115 characters in body
Jan
24
answered Why are there exactly four nucleobases in DNA?
Nov
9
revised Tuna fish in Baltic sea?
adding a comment about origin of canned and fresh tuna
Nov
9
awarded  Suffrage
Nov
9
comment Preferred Aspect Ratio for Human Eyes
I will add that in other animals, having a wide horizontal angle helps in hunting and also in defending against hunters. The vertical angle is also important, for example for hunting birds, but not so much for terrestrial animals.
Nov
9
suggested suggested edit on Tuna fish in Baltic sea?
Nov
9
comment Why do eukaryotic organisms have introns in their DNA?
I think the Lynch and Conery paper is so far the most reasonable explanation on the origin of introns, and combined with the other answer (biology.stackexchange.com/a/1725/658), it gives a complete explanation about the origin and the current fitness advantage of having introns in certain organisms, but not in others.
Nov
9
comment Athletes: nature vs. nurture?
I wonder if a case/control genetic study would be informative here: obtain genetic information from athletes (cases) and compare against the same genetic marks in the general population (controls).
Nov
9
comment Athletes: nature vs. nurture?
I am thinking that another good example could be 'sumo wrestlers', who are also very different in body types to the average population.
Oct
1
asked methods for targetted deletion of genomic regions?
Sep
13
awarded  Nice Question
Aug
1
comment Examples of intracellular parasites of medical or economic importance?
thanks for these interesting examples.
Aug
1
suggested suggested edit on What is the difference between naive and adjusted p-values in a GWAS study?
Aug
1
comment What is the difference between naive and adjusted p-values in a GWAS study?
Hummm, do you think they included the unadjusted p-value because the adjusted p-value is not very good?
Jul
31
asked What is the difference between naive and adjusted p-values in a GWAS study?
Jul
26
answered Is there a correlation between incidence of type 1 diabetes and vitiligo?