Against social constructionism
My first post over at HAP. The theses of some scholars who argue for social construction of caste has obviously gone too far, but I do want to add that I suspect there’s a lot correct about specific details. For example, it seems possible that the class “Kayastha” broadly refers to groups which uplifted from […]
The limits of computational power – shades of 1982
Two Steps Forward, Two Steps Back:
I got my daughter a netbook, so now my computer is doing Harappa Prohect work 24×7.
Also, Simranjit was nice enough to offer me the use of a server. For privacy reasons, I am not going to upload any of the participan…
The genetic world in 3-D
When Zack first mooted the idea of the Harappa Ancestry Project I had no idea what was coming down the pipe. I wonder if his daughter and wife are curious as to what’s happened to their computer! Since collecting the first wave of participants he…
Analyzing ancestry with ADMIXTURE, step by step
Over the past few months I was hoping more people would start doing what Zack Ajmal, Dienekes, and David, have been doing. There are public data sets, and open source software, so that anyone with nerdy inclination can explore their own questions out o…
Harappa Ancestry Project @ N ~ 50
Zack Ajmal now has over 50 participants in the Harappa Ancestry Project. This does not include the Pakistani populations in the HGDP, the HapMap Gujaratis, the Indians from the SVGP. Nevertheless, all these samples still barely cover vast heart of Sout…
Better comprehension through visualization
Zack has started to improve on static R plots with Google powered charts. Check it out. Alas, I can’t inject script tags into the body of my posts, so that’s not feasible for me. Notice on Zack’s plot that I’m more East Asian th…
Personal genomics around the web
Just some pointers. Dr. Daniel MacArthur has put up a guest post where I outline my own experience with personal genomics. Cool times that we live in. Also, Zack Ajmal has started posting higher K’s of HAP participants. He’s now in the second batch. My parents will be in the third. Lots of Tamils and […]
Dodecad open for submissions
Since I know plenty of friends are getting, or just got, their V3 results, I thought I’d pass this on, Open-ended submission opportunity for 23andMe data (#2):
Who is eligible
Everyone who is of European, Asian, or North African ancestry and all …
A genomic map of human variation, where we’re at
Zack has started exploring the K’s of his merged data set for HAP. A commenter suggests that:
As you have begun interpreting the reference results, let me make a friendly warning: you have to keep in mind that most of the reference populations of…
Harappa Ancestry Project, t-minus one day
Zack is going to post the first batch of results from HAP tomorrow. It looks like he’s going to be using mostly the merged HGDP, HapMap, SVGP, and Behar data set, supplemented by a second set which also merges the Xing et al. sample (the intersec…
Harappa Ancestry Project, before the first wave
Zack has been posting his data sources, as well as how he filtered and formatted them, all this week. I assume that the first wave of results will be online soon. As of yesterday, this is what he had (I know he got some more today):
– Punjab 7
– Bengal…
Harappa Ancestry Project, before the first wave
Zack has been posting his data sources, as well as how he filtered and formatted them, all this week. I assume that the first wave of results will be online soon. As of yesterday, this is what he had (I know he got some more today):
– Punjab 7
– Bengal…
Harappa Ancestry Project, update
Last week I announced the Harappa Ancestry Project. It now has its own dedicate website, http://www.harappadna.org. Additionally, it has its own Facebook page. For Zack to get his own URL he needs about 10 more “likes,” so please like it! (…
Introducing the Harappa Ancestry Project
A few weeks ago I hinted at a South Asian equivalent to Dodecad & Eurogenes BGA. It is now public and in the data collection phase. You can read the whole thing here:
http://www.zackvision.com/weblog/2011/01/harappa-ancestry-project
This is the fee…