Re: Genome Study: Africans Have Gene For Salt Retention

on Tue, 21 Mar 2006 01:39:08 GMT, DK <dk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> sez:
` In article <1142841878.758508.249450@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Daryl Krupa" <icycalmca@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
` >
` >Rich Travsky wrote:
` >> Coupla interesting bits in this article but I want to focus on the
` >> salt retention...
` >>
` >> http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,1725177,00.html
` ><snip>
` >
` > The article cited in that Guardian report is here:
` >
` >http://biology.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/jour
` >nal.pbio.0040072
` >
` > OR
` >
` >http://tinyurl.com/ox736
` >
` > I note that Jonathan Pritchard is the last author in the list,
` >suggesting
` >that he would be the least senior of teh bunch, and hence perhaps the
` >least able to give a reliable, non-sensationalised summary of the
` >contents of the study.

` Quite the contrary: unless it is a review, the last author is the
` MOST SENIOR author - in 99% cases (unless it is a review).

In what field is that? It is certainly the opposite of convention
as practised in the sciences with which I'm familiar.



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