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Multi-trait ensemble #genomic prediction and simulations of recurrent selection highlight importance of complex trait genetic architecture for long-term genetic gains in #wheat
📰 Story: botany.one/2023/03/unlocking-t via @botanyone
🔬 Research: doi.org/10.1093/insilicoplants from Nick Fradgley, Keith A Gardner, Alison R Bentley, Phil Howell, Ian J Mackay, Michael F Scott, Richard Mott, James Cockram
#PlantScience

My day job is all about #genes, so I applaud the #genomic revolution in #paleontology and #evolutionary #biology. But #evolution really is more than a shift in #allele frequencies over time. It's also change in the #phenotypes those alleles produce, and their #interaction with the world around them. 🧪🖥🧬🦖

cambridge.org/core/journals/pa

So I'm equally excited about the #quantitative revolution in describing and cataloguing #traits which until recently could only be analyzed #qualitatively. There's a whole new window opening into the history of life.

Cambridge CoreMorphological evolution in a time of phenomics | Paleobiology | Cambridge CoreMorphological evolution in a time of phenomics

#Ontario, Canada peeps or anyone have insight into why there was a sudden stop of uploading Ontario COVID #genomic sequence data to #GISAID? Last sequences dated Feb. 12, 2025 and nothing since. There was still 57-83 sequences a day being uploaded before that.

Now only a small # of sequences coming from NB & Quebec and periodically a few from AB, BC, and NS for all of Canada. You can see the big drop in Canada sequences when ON stopped submitting so very difficult to track what is going on.🧵1/

#Embryo editing debate is back:

Heritable polygenic editing: next frontier in #genomic #medicine?

In it Visscher suggest editing 10 bits of #DNA could reduce the prevalence of #Alzheimer’s or #schizophrenia by nearly 10-fold. Another 10 edits could diminish coronary artery #disease more than 30-fold, and 10 more edits could cut type 2 #diabetes by roughly 60-fold.
But doing so would be controversial, both at a scientific and moral level.
nature.com/articles/s41586-024 #genes #genetic #geneticediting

NatureHeritable polygenic editing: the next frontier in genomic medicine? - NatureWe discuss the potential consequences and ethical concerns of polygenic genome editing of human embryos to alter specific variants associated with polygenic diseases, highlighting the possibility of reducing disease susceptibility while exacerbating health inequalities.