http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2008/03/why-genome-wide-scans-arent-all-that/ Wed, 22 May 2013 06:36:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2008/03/why-genome-wide-scans-arent-all-that/#comment-9423 Marcus Sat, 05 Apr 2008 18:43:19 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2008/03/30/why-genome-wide-scans-arent-all-that/#comment-9423 <i>Of course, the hypothesis they're implicitly testing is that common diseases are caused by common variants that can be tagged with a SNP chip; as it turns out, this hypothesis is largely wrong</i> How do you know they are wrong? Of course, the hypothesis they’re implicitly testing is that common diseases are caused by common variants that can be tagged with a SNP chip; as it turns out, this hypothesis is largely wrong
How do you know they are wrong?

]]> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2008/03/why-genome-wide-scans-arent-all-that/#comment-9422 Daniel MacArthur Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:53:45 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2008/03/30/why-genome-wide-scans-arent-all-that/#comment-9422 <i>Perhaps hypotheses are overrated?</i> Well, some of the people doing genome scans would argue that they're going in without any hypothesis at all. Of course, the hypothesis they're implicitly testing is that common diseases are caused by common variants that can be tagged with a SNP chip; as it turns out, this hypothesis is largely wrong. Perhaps hypotheses are overrated?
Well, some of the people doing genome scans would argue that they’re going in without any hypothesis at all.
Of course, the hypothesis they’re implicitly testing is that common diseases are caused by common variants that can be tagged with a SNP chip; as it turns out, this hypothesis is largely wrong.

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