The Genetic Genealogist

From my Twitter account (blaine_5), here are my tweets from the past few weeks (Feb. 4 – Feb. 20th), most of which are about genetic genealogy and personal genomics:

• RT @GeneSherpas: “@GeneticsUpdate: Can You Be Fired for Your Genes? sns.mx/REiMy1” Hopefully our future doesn’t come down to this! Feb 20, 10:44pm via HootSuite 

• RT @openSNPorg: You can now apply for a free genotyping. Find more details and the planned schedule here: opensnp.wordpress.com/2012/02/20/app… Feb 20, 5:45pm via HootSuite 

• RT @Sagebio: RT @gnshealthcare: It’s not the $1,000 genome that’s important, it’s the analysis that’s valuable. onforb.es/xzzht0 Feb 16, 1:06pm via HootSuite

• Wow! MT @genomicslawyer: New GeneWatch entitled “Genetics in 20 years”: bit.ly/zF3kVO Commentaries from Evans, Greely, Church, others  Feb 16, 11:52am via HootSuite

• New at TGG: “@23andMe is Hiring a Marketing Team” – ow.ly/96I1e (via @businessinsider)  Feb 16, 9:00am via HootSuite

• New at TGG: @MyHeritage & Family Tree DNA partner to offer genetic genealogy tests to MyHeritage’s 62 million members – ow.ly/96Flp  Feb 16, 8:23am via HootSuite

• Congratulations @johnhawks! RT @paleoanth: My appointment as HHMI Fellow dlvr.it/1CRWmp #johnhawksweblog  Feb 16, 7:26am via HootSuite

• RT @dgmacarthur: RT @EricTopol Interesting perspective from a Bloomberg journalist who has his genome sequenced bloom.bg/w6QXnW  Feb 15, 10:38am via HootSuite

• An interesting Kickstarter project involving Sitting Bull’s DNA and his great-grandson Ernie LaPointe – ow.ly/94lpA  Feb 14, 2:15pm via HootSuite

• “Genetics and privacy” at john hawks weblog (@johnhawks) – “‘Privacy advocates’ seem like they’re living in the 1980′s”  Feb 14, 12:19pm via HootSuite

• Technically his mom’s bedroom! MT @drbachinsky: “Doing Biotech in My Bedroom” at ow.ly/93TZM (via @techreview) Feb 14, 10:05am via HootSuite

• 2 containing “ancestry” – MT @DNAlawyer: This morning Rothenberg touted NHGRI searchable DB of all ELSI projects: ow.ly/92V4x  Feb 13, 3:41pm via HootSuite

• “Oh, mama…a use for mtDNA” by Judy G. Russell at The Legal Genealogist – ow.ly/926G1  Feb 13, 7:46am via HootSuite

• Interesting SNPedia analysis of the new Denisova genome – ow.ly/926lh (by @CarisO) – straight hair or curly? Feb 13, 7:43am via HootSuite

• MT @genomicslawyer: New study raises concerns about use of familial matching in forensic DNA: bit.ly/xF1MCm  Feb 11, 11:32am via HootSuite

• New post at Higher Education IP Law Report – “Does an Instructor Have Rights in a Student’s Class Notes?” ow.ly/8YgQ9  Feb 09, 10:26am via HootSuite

• Fascinating post about consumer genomics by Madeleine Price Ball at the Personal Genome Project’s new blog – ow.ly/8Ybol  Feb 09, 9:37am via HootSuite

• The hitherto mysterious “The Genealogy Event” (@GenealogyEvent) in NYC in Oct. 2012 is now requesting speakers – ow.ly/8V5hY  Feb 07, 7:49am via HootSuite

• Ancestry.com‘s exciting new autosomal DNA test discussed at #Rootstech keynote today – ow.ly/1Fz9tf  Feb 04, 7:34pm via HootSuite

• I plan to be there!! RT @RootsTechConf Mark your calendars: #RootsTech 2013 is March 21-23, 2013  Feb 04, 7:30pm via HootSuite

• Listening to Kenneth Chahine (Sr. Vice President & General Manager at Ancestry.com) talk about DNA at #Rootstech 2012 Feb 04, 10:53am via TweetDeck