Comments on: Science Tuesday: Smoke Gets in Your Genes http://www.chrisdellavedova.com/2007/09/04/science-tuesday-smoke-gets-in-your-genes/ An American Expatriate -Upside Down Down Under Tue, 08 Sep 2009 07:10:34 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jeremy http://www.chrisdellavedova.com/2007/09/04/science-tuesday-smoke-gets-in-your-genes/comment-page-1/#comment-615 Jeremy Thu, 06 Sep 2007 19:58:19 +0000 http://www.chrisdellavedova.com/2007/09/04/science-tuesday-smoke-gets-in-your-genes/#comment-615 I am not a scientist by any means, and certainly do not understand the genes, but I do understand that secondhand smoke will surely do in an ignorant bloke! :-) (don't worry, you have probably the only existant published attempt at rhyme I have ever made, by mistake I might add) Congratulations for quitting regardless of science it's a smart thing to do, especially for parents. Happy WW and an outstanding picture for your post I am not a scientist by any means, and certainly do not understand the genes, but I do understand that secondhand smoke will surely do in an ignorant bloke! :-) (don’t worry, you have probably the only existant published attempt at rhyme I have ever made, by mistake I might add)

Congratulations for quitting regardless of science it’s a smart thing to do, especially for parents. Happy WW and an outstanding picture for your post

]]> By: Isabelle aka Tricotine http://www.chrisdellavedova.com/2007/09/04/science-tuesday-smoke-gets-in-your-genes/comment-page-1/#comment-563 Isabelle aka Tricotine Wed, 05 Sep 2007 02:51:19 +0000 http://www.chrisdellavedova.com/2007/09/04/science-tuesday-smoke-gets-in-your-genes/#comment-563 YAY!!! Good for you -- and your family as well... I have quit 7 years ago, and so far no regret AT ALL! :-) Happy WW! Mine is up at <a href="http://tricotine.typepad.com/weblog/" rel="nofollow">Tricotine</a> YAY!!! Good for you — and your family as well…
I have quit 7 years ago, and so far no regret AT ALL! :-)

Happy WW!

Mine is up at Tricotine

]]> By: CDV http://www.chrisdellavedova.com/2007/09/04/science-tuesday-smoke-gets-in-your-genes/comment-page-1/#comment-556 CDV Tue, 04 Sep 2007 14:16:47 +0000 http://www.chrisdellavedova.com/2007/09/04/science-tuesday-smoke-gets-in-your-genes/#comment-556 D makes some fair points. I'm not a statistician, but some of the stats they use do seem slightly manipulated, particularly since they say that one of the advantages of SAGE is that it doesn't require the statistical manipulation that microarrays do. I think SAGE itself is error prone (my first undergraduate project was sequencing SAGE tags from pine trees at Georgia). It's true that they only confirm one of the irreversible genes by qRT-PCR, however this isn't a trivial or cheap experiment and they're only publishing in BMC Genomics. I read their conclusions as solid. For the full paper, go here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/8/297/abstract D makes some fair points. I’m not a statistician, but some of the stats they use do seem slightly manipulated, particularly since they say that one of the advantages of SAGE is that it doesn’t require the statistical manipulation that microarrays do. I think SAGE itself is error prone (my first undergraduate project was sequencing SAGE tags from pine trees at Georgia). It’s true that they only confirm one of the irreversible genes by qRT-PCR, however this isn’t a trivial or cheap experiment and they’re only publishing in BMC Genomics. I read their conclusions as solid. For the full paper, go here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/8/297/abstract

]]> By: D. Thatherton http://www.chrisdellavedova.com/2007/09/04/science-tuesday-smoke-gets-in-your-genes/comment-page-1/#comment-552 D. Thatherton Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:50:30 +0000 http://www.chrisdellavedova.com/2007/09/04/science-tuesday-smoke-gets-in-your-genes/#comment-552 look closely at the paper. it's the most warped statistical analysis ever. plus only 1 gene shown to be irreversible and not even in the list of 100+ they found?! the SAGE tag doesn't even match. mickey mouse. look closely at the paper. it’s the most warped statistical analysis ever. plus only 1 gene shown to be irreversible and not even in the list of 100+ they found?! the SAGE tag doesn’t even match. mickey mouse.

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