Reading The Turks in World History and confused how any state whose elite were non-nomads held out before the gunpowder revolution. Also, the persistent defection of Chinese generals and soldiers to the side of the barbarians is interesting light of other conversations we’ve had.
Are there any (post-)Roman examples of this? I know that an early Dark Age a major Slavic warlord was actually a Frankish merchant (Samo). But did whole units “go native”? Seems likely in Francia and Britain.
ASHG in Orlando is over. Much more excited by ASHG in San Diego next year, because it’s in San Diego. That being said the conference seems to be moving into a strong clinical genomic direction.
Lots of stuff going on. Still recuperating. My company released a Metabolism app.
A paper from a few years ago argues that we could sequence the whole world by 2025 (capacity).
This paper argues 60 million will be sequenced in healthcare context by 2025. Seems conservative.
Went to a Broad Institute presentation where they said they had 300,000 exomes and 85,000 whole genomes sequenced.
Now that researchers are converging in the likelihood that modern humans spend the vast majority of their time in Africa, it looks like evolutionary population genomics in the next 10 years will really focus on that continent.