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> Department of Computational Biology, Cornell University, United States; Department of Human Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles, United States; De
by tboyd47 3y ago
> Department of Computational Biology, Cornell University, United States; Department of Human Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles, United States; Department of Computer Science, University of California, Los Angeles, United States; Analytical and Translational Genetics Unit, Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, United States; Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, United States; Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, United States; Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, United States; Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, United States; Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, United States; Center for Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public and Population Health Sciences, University of Southern California, United States; Division of Genetics,Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, United States; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, United States; Department of Computational Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, United States
Who is paying all these research institutes to construct this narrative about Neanderthals? And what does any of this have to do with medicine and health?
- wizzwizz4 3y agoThe relation to medicine and health is fairly simple: all population studies on the relationship between genetics and phenotype are useful for identifying (and hence learning about, and hence treating) gene-linked health conditions. The funding is in the acknowledgements section: > We thank Bogdan Pasaniuc and Kirk Lohmueller for feedback on the manuscript. DR was supported by an Allen Discovery Center grant on Brain Evolution from the Paul Allen Foundation, John Templeton Foundation grant 61220, US National Science Foundation HOMINID grant BCS-1032255, US National Institutes of Health grants GM100233 and HG006399, and is an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. SS is supported in part by NIH grants R35GM125055, NSF grants III-1705121, CAREER-1943497, an Alfred P Sloan Research Fellowship, and a gift from the Okawa Foundation. PL was supported by a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award at the Scientific Interfaces and the Next Generation Fund at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.
- AlotOfReading 3y agoThese are researchers associated with multiple institutes each, so you've inflated the apparent number by quoting them multiple times. Only 10 people are listed as authors (fairly small for a genetics paper) and of those, two are PIs, three (including the two main authors) are from the same research lab, and the rest are associated with the PIs. If you want to know the rationale for why this is "useful research" for the public to fund, look at the funding applications. They're public and the paper even lists them by grant number to make it easy. Here's one: https://grantome.com/grant/NIH/R01-GM100233-05 https://grantome.com/grant/NIH/R01-GM100233-05 It's fundamental research on the human genome though, pretty obviously applicable to medicine and human health.
- basch 3y agohttps://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2014/01/neanderthals-dna-legacy-linked-to-modern-ailments/ https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2014/01/neanderthals-... https://academic.oup.com/gbe/article/13/1/evaa250/6008690?login=false https://academic.oup.com/gbe/article/13/1/evaa250/6008690?lo...