Jeremy J. Berg

@JeremyJBerg

Evolutionary Biologist. Population and Human Geneticist. Assistant Professor of Human Genetics he/him/his

Vrijeme pridruživanja: studeni 2012.

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  1. Prikvačeni tweet
    5. lip 2019.

    I am looking to hire a post-doc to work on theory/methods/inference projects related to mutational bias, natural selection, and pleiotropy in quantitative traits email me jjberg[at]uchicago[dot]edu if interested

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    , , and I wrote a response to last week's WSJ op-ed by . "The notion of 'genetic potential' is deeply problematic and misleading."

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  4. prije 2 sata

    oooo I get to start a new 2020 subfolder in my "grants" folder how exciting!

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    1. velj

    Based on the content of my mentions, I feel like I need to further debunk crazy / HIV conspiracy preprint. This is a thread doing so. 1/9

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  6. 31. sij

    I mean JFC...

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  7. 31. sij

    I assume she'll be submitting her resignation letter simultaneously?

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    30. sij

    An updated version of our ( and ) work on the factors affecting the performance of polygenic scores--beyond genetic ancestry—is accepted and now up [thread]

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    29. sij

    But it warrants a response from geneticists. Is anyone already organizing one?

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    29. sij

    I am not excited to say that there were similar problems in the raw data of another of my papers - this paper is now retracted too. I know there might be some interest in what's going on so here is the full account of how and why I came to this decision:

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    29. sij

    Nothing says "Charles Murray wrote an op-ed about genetics in the Wall Street Journal" like the direction of that double helix lololol

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    28. sij

    PGS offers an amazing tool for all sorts of research, including social sciences, but they are not a magic bullet and we should be very sceptical of anyone who seeks easy answers to policy questions from them

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    28. sij

    The predictions formed by polygenic scores do not reflect something "innate" to an individual, but merely reflect sources of variation within a society. If that society is unfair that unfairness may be baked into polygenic scores.

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    28. sij

    All sorts of factors that may affect test scores from testing anxiety to discrimination against parents will have a partially genetic basis and so maybe built into test score PGS.

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    28. sij

    A really daft paragraph. Imagine society discriminates against (say) short people. Then as height has a genetic basis, so will discrimination, and so discrimination will built into PGS of traits affected by discrimination.

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    28. sij

    This is incorrect. Here's some recent lit on how & why existing PGS methods do not fully separate genetic from environmental effects on traits, particularly when comparing across populations.

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  17. 28. sij

    "Measures of IQ...are...contaminated by environmental effects before birth and during infancy. Polygenic scores for IQ are free of that contamination." Yeah, definitely never seen a polygenic score contaminated by environmental effects before. I foresee no problems whatsoever.

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    27. sij

    The Leffler Lab is launching! We have opportunities for grad students and postdocs to work on human and macaque evolutionary genomics, malaria adaptation, structural variation, and more -- see for further info and get in touch!

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    24. sij

    The term "folk" (i.e. "folk lore"/ "folk medicine") has gone out of vogue in anthropology because it sounds a bit condescending. But I think it helps communicate a difference from scientific knowledge. We can say "race is a folk taxonomy that isn't useful to geneticists. 2/2

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    24. sij

    When anthropologists say race is "socially constructed" many think this means it's purely imaginary & has no physical correlates. They scoff because they can *see* racial differences. Concept might be clearer if we said that race is a "folk taxonomy". 1/2

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    22. sij

    I'm looking for a computational postdoc for analyzing palaeogenomic data, co-advised with , to start around September 2020. Deadline for applying is March 15th. Link here:

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