Remember the t-shirt experiment I referred to? Well, a paper published today in PLoS Genetics provides evidence at the population level that mate choice in humans is influenced by the genotype at MHC loci. European American couples are significantly more dissimilar than would be expected if mating occurred at random.
Annoucements: September 2008 Archives
I found a small error in the notes for today's genetic structure lecture. It's buried in the "Gory details" section, so you probably won't care. But if you do, and if you've printed out that page, you might want to print out a new copy.
If you're running Windows Vista, you are liable to run into permission problems when you try to install the Keys.ocf file that comes as part of your registration. To avoid this problem, I suggest installing WinBUGS in your Public directory (c:/Users/Public). It's possible to tweak the permissions, but sticking it somewhere else is easier.
If you take a look at the lecture schedule you'll notice that I didn't say anything at all about inbreeding on Friday. We'll talk about inbreeding tomorrow, and my plan is to cover both the basics of inbreeding and the basics of testing for departure from Hardy-Weinberg in lecture tomorrow. To accomplish that, I plan to skip the section on chi-squared tests in the testing Hardy-Weinberg notes, and I'll gloss over the details on self-fertilization, skipping directly to partial self-fertilization in the inbreeding notes.
