Mailund on the Internet

Take a look at this post from Genetic Future.  It concerns the genetic population structure of Europe, and it seems that the genotypes can be used to pretty accurately predict the geography.  Of course I expected a lot of population structure when considering all of Europe, but I am a bit surprised that there is this much structure between, e.g., Swedes and Danes.

I haven’t read the paper refered to yet — I will print it when I get to the office tomorrow — but this is pretty cool.

What does this mean for association mapping, by the way.  Is the HapMap CEU sample based tagSNPs equally good for all Europeans, or what?

Yeah, yeah, I know I have been silent for a while again. There was a little vacation time and then BiRC moved to a new building. I am sitting in my new office now where I’ve finally arranged everything the way I want it (except for the blackboard where I need someone to drill some holes).

My new office is about twice the size of the old one, so now I have room for both my comfy chair and my old sofa. The sofa is from my flat when I lived downtown and I moved it to my office when I moved from my flat to my current house. I haven’t had room for it in my own office for a while, though, so others have had the pleasure of having it. Now it is back with me. Excellent if I feel like taking a nap at work.

From my window I can see the old BiRC building. I don’t know what it will be used for in the future, assuming they do not just tear it down. It is an old building and it is not in a particularly good shape any more.

Sorry about the picture quality, by the way. The pictures were taken by my cell phone and the quality is lousy.