GNXP is a blog written by Razib Khan on the Discover Magazine site. Khan is a biochemist and software engineer who makes interesting research in genetics and other areas of biology accessible to an audience interested in scientific topics. I skimmed through the archives of the blog from 2006 onwards. I thought these findings were some of the most informative and enlightening. These posts tend to specifically focus on results of experiments, studies, and surveys. My interest in genetics is primarily centered on human behavior and health, which is the subject of most of these links. The GNXP blog also has many interesting posts on the evolution of various populations. Khan also has plenty of fascinating and useful theories that he has written in posts at the GNXP blog, so I encourage you to skim through the full archives if you are interested in genetics and biology.
Also, I was featured in a post: Two Public Genotypes
2011:
• 23andMe, MHC compatibility, and organ donation. (Link)
• Fertility rates in Arab countries. (Link)
• Proportion of households where grandchildren live at home. (Link)
• Difference between ideal and actual number of children. (Link)
• Assortative mating and I.Q. (Link)
• Cognitive style and belief in God. (Link)
• Religious beliefs of people with high functioning autism. (Link)
• Demographic groups and opinions on astrology. (Link)
• Demographic groups and acceptance of evolution. (Link)
• Genetic variation in I.Q. (Link)
• Probability of pregnancy by age. (Link)
• Beliefs about extramarital sex by demographic group. (Link)
• Tolerance of extramarital sex by level of education. (Link)
• Adoptive environments and personality. (Link)
• The evolutionary history of helicobacter pylori. (Link)
• Biblical literalism and job satisfaction. (Link)
• Heritability and genomics of facial features. (Link)
• Agriculture and the deterioration of health. (Link)
• Heritability of political orientation. (Link)
• New mutations in individuals. (Link)
• Socioeconomic index of religious denominations. (Link)
• I.Q. and genomics. (Link)
• Spouses tend to have similar political opinions. (Link)
• Novelty seeking and human migration. (Link)
• Mate choice and assortative mating. (Link)
• Data on beliefs in evolution and creationism. (Link)
• How to detect incest. (Link)
• Political beliefs of professors in different academic disciplines. (Link)
• Ancestry and health care. (Link)
• Why siblings differ. (Link)
• Data on IQ, occupation, and wealth. (Link)
• When genes matter for intelligence. (Link)
• Statistics on religious identification in the USA. (Link)
• Genome wide association studies and evolution. (Link)
2010:
• Time preference among nations. (Link)
• Verbal and mathematical aptitude among different academic majors. (Link)
• Demographic information on science and engineering majors. (Link)
• Data on Muslim opinions. (Link)
• A diabetes gene. (Link)
• The prevalence of diabetes in the USA by county. (Link)
• Internet usage by country. (Link)
• A high protein and low refined carb diet maintains weight loss. (Link)
• Sex differences in global atheism. (Link)
• Fertility of religious populations. (Link)
• Percentage of college graduates by religious group. (Link)
• Hundreds of genetic variants influence height. (Link)
• Twin correlations in IQ and education. (Link)
• Exercise and intelligence. (Link)
• Fertility rates by intelligence. (Link)
• Fertility rates of racial groups in the USA. (Link)
• Skepticism of QTLs in personality genetics. (Link)
• Disease as a byproduct of adaptation. (Link)
• Using the General Social Survey. (Link)
• Comparing the desire for children among men and women. (Link)
• Women want more kids than in past decades. (Link)
• Cuckoldry was more common in past generations. (Link)
• The rarity of cuckoldry. (Link)
• Fundamentalists have a smaller vocabulary. (Link)
• Who the creationists are. (Link)
• Statistics on who is most likely to drink. (Link)
• Religious affiliations of elite scientists. (Link)
• Statistics on medical students. (Link)
• Divorce statistics for interracial marriages. (Link)
• Vitamin D controls T cell antigen receptor signaling. (Link)
• Vitamin D reduces asthma attacks. (Link)
• Brain lesions associated with self-transcendence. (Link)
• Race bias in women varies across the menstrual cycle. (Link)
• Oxytocin may improve social skills. (Link)
• Face recognition is highly heritable. (Link)
• Wealth and height. (Link)
• Genes implicated in type 2 diabetes risk. (Link)
• Religious change in the USA by state. (Link)
• Statistics on the importance of religion in Asian cultures. (Link)
2009:
• Less sleep leads to cold susceptibility. (Link)
• Gene causes heart disease in South Asians. (Link)
• Women with PhDs work fewer hours than male PhD recipients. (Link)
• MAOA and aggression with provocation. (Link)
• Information on British nonpaternity rates. (Link)
• A ranking of religious groups who believe in evolution. (Link)
• Vitamin D deficiency is associated with respiratory infections. (Link)
• Religious belief can have a calming effect. (Link)
• Around 80-90% of the variation in adult height is heritable. (Link)
• Religiosity according to age and education. (Link)
• Paternal age is associated with worse offspring neurocognitive scores. (Link)
• Map of health in the USA. (Link)
• Symmetry is correlated with intelligence. (Link)
• African American girls are more likely to be bulimic. (Link)
• Data on creationism in America and Europe. (Link)
• Data on nonpaternity rates. (Link)
• Loci controlling adult stature. (Link)
• Women smell less and have a better sense of smell. (Link)
• Adoptive children experience more negative outcomes despite investment. (Link)
• Male circumcision reduces HIV risk. (Link)
• Data on which nations support open borders. (Link)
• A ranking of levels of trust across countries. (Link)
• A potential link between vitamin D deficiency and autism. (Link)
• Data from the World Values Survey on East Asian countries. (Link)
• Genetic and environmental influences on borderline personality disorder. (Link)
• Maps of the prevalence of the seven deadly sins in the USA. (Link)
• Ranking of countries on the unimportance of free speech. (Link)
• Map of mental distress in the USA. (Link)
• Genes affecting menopause and senescence. (Link)
• What demographic groups think about gay marriage. (Link)
• Opposition to gay marriage by region and race. (Link)
• Genes which affect female development. (Link)
• People tend to be optimistic by nature. (Link)
• Brain structure disposition in social interaction. (Link)
• Married couples have more MHC dissimilarities than expected by chance. (Link)
• Statistics on interracial marriages. (Link)
• Iraq data from the World Values Survey. (Link)
• MAOA and violence. (Link)
• Government welfare correlates with less religion. (Link)
• Opinion differences between science and the public. (Link)
• Toxoplasma infection and traffic accidents. (Link)
• Demographics who support the space program. (Link)
• Variation between states in the black and white obesity rates. (Link)
• African-Americans eat the most sugar. (Link)
• Women are more religious than men. (Link)
• American women tend to be more religiously conservative. (Link)
• Doctors are less politically conservative than others. (Link)
• The youngest adults are the least creationist. (Link)
• Smarter people believe in evolution. (Link)
• Variants influencing BMI contribute to severe obesity. (Link)
• Regional differences in opinion, attitude, and values. (Link)
• Opinions and values by region and race. (Link)
• 80% of Southern Baptists believe in Hell compared to 35% of Episcopalians. (Link)
• Northeastern Protestants and Catholics accept evolution. (Link)
• Hispanics are more religious but not zealous. (Link)
• Physicists and mathematicians have the highest LSAT scores. (Link)
• The percentage of women who feel it’s ok for their husbands to beat them. (Link)
• Religious attendance relates to generosity. (Link)
• Life satisfaction and wealth. (Link)
• Religiosity is correlated with the teen birth rate. (Link)
• Maps of cohabitation in the USA. (Link)
• Father absence is correlated with early sexual behavior. (Link)
• College students are not as intelligent as they used to be. (Link)
• The neuroscience of religiosity. (Link)
• Evolution mapped against education. (Link)
• The contraceptive pill alters mate choice. (Link)
• New Age believers are more delusional than average. (Link)
• A chart of the whitest cities. (Link)
• Materialism leads to inequality. (Link)
• Intergenerational wealth transfer in hunter-gatherer societies. (Link)
• A map of countries that people want to move away from. (Link)
• Church attendance is higher in countries with inequality. (Link)
• Studies of religious attitudes in Muslim societies. (Link)
• Countries ranked by the importance of religion in life. (Link)
• Cardiovascular fitness and higher IQ. (Link)
• The genetic basis of tuberculosis resistance. (Link)
• Demographics of people who believe in spiritual items. (Link)
• Increased prevalence of myopia in the USA. (Link)
• A match between subjective and objective well-being. (Link)
• Africa’s urban poor are becoming obese. (Link)
2008:
• Figures on paternity uncertainty. (Link)
• People strive for social status in their respective communities. (Link)
• People with longer legs are rated as more attractive. (Link)
• Regions of the USA that do and don’t accept evolution. (Link)
• Third and fourth cousins have the greatest reproductive success. (Link)
• IQ scores by religious affiliation. (Link)
• Loci associated with height. (Link)
• Average starting salary by major. (Link)
• Men are more likely to be atheists and religious fundamentalists. (Link)
• Religious attendance predicts marital fidelity. (Link)
• Differences in religious belief between the sexes. (Link)
• Homicide rates by state and country. (Link)
• Racial differences in survival after heart failure. (Link)
• Vitamin D is important in brain development. (Link)
• Mother’s diet influences the sex of her infant. (Link)
• Genetic variation and stress response. (Link)
• Statistics on religion and religiosity in China. (Link)
• A map of states that allow cousin marriages. (Link)
• A map of birth-death ratios in the USA. (Link)
• Countries where women are more interested in science. (Link)
• Religion and public attitudes. (Link)
• Gender differences in voting behavior. (Link)
• Belief in Biblical literalism by educational attainment. (Link)
• The mean IQ of white college graduates has been dropping. (Link)
• Correlation between national IQ and religious disbelief. (Link)
• Data on religious beliefs among professors. (Link)
• Figures on postgrad education and the belief in Biblical literalism. (Link)
• Voting turnout is heritable. (Link)
• Women are wary of eating genetically modified foods. (Link)
• Data on demographic groups that are scientifically literate. (Link)
• A ranking of adults qualified as civic scientifically literate. (Link)
• The race of a potential mate matters more to women. (Link)
• Theological beliefs by denomination. (Link)
• Data on how many children people want to have. (Link)
• Vitamin D deficiency is associated with a higher mortality risk. (Link)
• Oral contraceptives lead to a preference for MHC similarity. (Link)
• Data on people who are believers or atheists. (Link)
• A ranking of atheists by state. (Link)
• AVPR1a and fidelity. (Link)
• The role of AVPR1A. (Link)
• Asian-Americans who participate in their church are depressed. (Link)
• A woman’s history of vaginal orgasm discerned from her walk. (Link)
• People in different regions of the USA differ psychologically. (Link)
• MHC influences mate choice in some human populations. (Link)
• No sex differences on opinions of science. (Link)
• A ranking of obesity rates by country. (Link)
• Who is most likely to be homophobic? (Link)
• Religious thoughts increase altruistic behavior. (Link)
• Fatty foods curb hunger. (Link)
• Traits that increase the election chances of candidates. (Link)
• A genetic predisposition to seasonal affective disorder. (Link)
• People in the USA are less likely to believe nanotechnology is moral. (Link)
• Mortality salience leads to more religiosity. (Link)
• The genetics of obesity. (Link)
• IQ differences by religious denomination (Link)
• Obese people are happier. (Link)
• A map of natural hazard mortality. (Link)
• Calculating the risks of cousin marriages. (Link)
• Episcopalians and Jews have similar opinions. (Link)
2007:
• Menopause may extend lifespan. (Link)
• Whole milk increases fertility. (Link)
• Meditative training can improve attention. (Link)
• Men who reject a low offer have higher testosterone. (Link)
• Political identification of college professors by field. (Link)
• The ability to listen to more than one thing at once is inherited. (Link)
• 55% of the variance in prosocial behavior is due to genes. (Link)
• Cultures with starchy diets have more copies of the amylase gene. (Link)
• There is a correlation between fetal testosterone and autistic traits. (Link)
• Vitamin D supplements are associated with a lower risk of death. (Link)
• A mutation benefits muscle energy metabolism. (Link)
• Liberals and low IQ people believe more in astrology. (Link)
• Young adults are skeptical and frustrated with Christianity. (Link)
• A majority of people have an unfavorable opinion of atheists. (Link)
• Individual differences are caused by rearrangement of DNA chunks. (Link)
• The Pew Survey of Global Attitudes. (Link)
• Dopamine is involved in reinforcement learning. (Link)
• Aversion to new food is heritable. (Link)
• The flu can cause fetal changes that lead to schizophrenia. (Link)
• AVPR1a polymorphism tied to variation in altruism. (Link)
• Maternal grandparents are more involved with their grandchildren. (Link)
• Most Canadian non-whites have vitamin D deficiency. (Link)
• Obesity is heritable, not genetic. (Link)
2006:
• Religiosity in the professoriate. (Link)
• People in developed countries have more sexual partners. (Link)
• Spirituality among American ethnic groups. (Link)
• The heritability of religiosity is 0.5 (Link)
• Virginity as a function of IQ. (Link)
• Women are more religious than men. (Link)
• Genetic counselors err on the side of keeping paternity secret. (Link)
• African Americans are at a greater risk for myocardial infarction. (Link)
• Men are more competitive than women. (Link)
• Results of a survey on American religion. (Link)
• Girls mature more slowly when the biological father is around. (Link)
• Toxoplasma gondii affects human cultures. (Link)
• European countries ranked by the acceptance of evolution. (Link)
• Survey results on the importance of religion. (Link)
• Altruism ranked by nation. (Link)
• There is a heritable component to political orientation. (Link)
• Late maturing boys tend to be disadvantaged throughout their life. (Link)
• Physicists have the highest scores on intelligence tests. (Link)
• The most religious areas of the United States are in the center of the country. (Link)
• Human genetic variation responds differently to HIV infection. (Link)
• 90% of evolutionary biologists aren’t religious. (Link)
• Humans are still evolving. (Link)
• Evolutionary biology research techniques predict cancer. (Link)
• Hair pigmentation is associated with behavioral inhibition. (Link)
• DRD4 polymorphisms correlate with sexual arousal. (Link)
• Upscale individuals are more likely to have read The Da Vinci Code. (Link)
• A woman’s chances of having twins can be modified by diet. (Link)
• Normal human brain volume is heritable. (Link)
• Royal fratricide tended to follow Hamiltonian principles. (Link)
• Women prefer the smell of men whose alleles match their paternally transmitted HLA alleles. (Link)
• A ranking of university disciplines by political orientation. (Link)
• Three human gene variants appear to influence tuberculosis susceptibility. (Link)
• Religiosity is a predictor of lower intelligence. (Link)
• As socioeconomic status increases, the heritability of IQ increases. (Link)
• Adoption and IQ. (Link)
• Polling data from religious persons and doctors about evolution. (Link)
