This Week in Nature: Jul 28, 2016

Jul 28, 2016

In this week's Nature Genetics, a team led by researchers at the Brown University School of Public health report a genetic variant that increases the risk of obesity in Samoans, providing new insights into the genetics of a population with the highest prevalence of obesity in the world.

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The Scan

Slow Release of Viral Sequence

An Associated Press report says China refrained from releasing the SARS-CoV-2 genome for more than a week in January, frustrating the World Health Organization.

Journals Raise Concerns Over Data Source

The Lancet and the New England Journal of Medicine have issued expressions of concern regarding the data used in two COVID-19 papers, the New York Times reports.

Details From a Short Life

Researchers have sequenced the genome of the mayfly, garnering insight into how insects evolved wings, Science reports.

Genome Research Papers on Brain Expression, Inversion Assay, Polymorphic Yeast Centromeres

In Genome Research this week: gene expression in primate brain regions, inversions and breakpoint inverted repeats in the human genome, and more.

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