Will new guidelines protect or expose the Indian gene pool?

Which Will Overcome? The Productivity or Risk Premium

The study investigates consumers’ preference for cowpea reflected in the Nigerian markets through price discounts and premiums that consumers pay for different cowpea characteristics. The price data used for this study were obtained through a market survey. A common data collection protocol was employed. Every month, between October 2009 to December 2010, five cowpea samples per seller were bou...

The gene pool

Any good journalist knows that, if you can’t deliver the facts, at least you can offer up a bit of entertainment. Genome scientists have co-opted that strategy when it comes to the seemingly immortal question of how many human genes there are. Frankly, nobody seems to have a clue. So at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory genome meeting this May, they decided to collect a different form of data —...

Swimmer, Protect Thyself: Cleaning Up the Pool Environment

To pool, or not to pool?

Let's start with the most familiar context for pooling data (at least to students in introductory courses in statistics), viz., the pooling of sample variances in a t test of the significance of the difference between two independent sample means. The null hypothesis to be tested is that the means of two populations are equal (the populations from which the respective samples have been randomly...

Commentary To Pool , or Not to Pool ?

IN this issue of Genetics, Futschik and Schlötterer (2010) present one of the first and the most systematic explorations of the relative merits of pooling vs. individual sequencing for several genetics applications. They argue that pooling individuals is often more effective both for SNP discovery and for the estimation of allele frequencies (and thus for population genomic analyses) and as a r...