Diabetes – Razib Khan

December 7, 2010 by Razib Khan 0

Adaptation, Agriculture, Diabetes, Diet, Genetics, Genomics, Human Evolution, Human Genetics, Medicine, Metabolism, Recent Human Evolution, Thrifty Gene

One diabetes gene to explain it all?

President William Howard Taft
It is the best of times, it is the worse of times. On the one hand the medical consequences of human genomics have been underwhelming. This is important because this is the ultimate reason that much of the basic research is funded. And yet we’ve learned so much. The genetic architecture of […]

Are over-leveraged counties seeing an increase in food stamp usage?

Since The New York Times put up the csv file which they used to generate their maps of food stamp usage, I thought I’d look at the data a little closer. In particular, look at this graphic of change in food stamp usage by county (dark equals more usage…

Diabetes and obesity

Update: I made a major error in the algebra of estimating “white diabetes rates” per county. So the last set of correlations was junk. I think fixed the issue. Thanks to “bayesian” who noted that something was off with them.The CDC provides data on dia…