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Los Angeles, America’s most fire-ready city, became overwhelmed by flames
The National Weather Service has issued a high-risk fire weather outlook for Los Angeles through Wednesday. “SantaAnaWind combined with dry air and very dry vegetation will maintain high WILD FIRE RISK through Wednesday,” the NWS Los Angeles office wrote in a post on Saturday. A Santa Ana wind event occurs when there is a pressure…
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Mexican Biobank is involved in medical and population genetics
The results of an analysis of the 1000 Genomes Project Mexican ancestry sequence using Variant Effect Prediction and Admixture Bayes estimates have been published. The analysis was done by ADMIXTURE with reference panels from 1000 Genomes, which include Utah residents with Northern and Western European ancestry, the UK and Scotland, YRI and Peruvian in Lima,…