Paleogeneticists have taken a sweeping look at 297 ancient genomes from Scandinavia and compared them with genetic data from 16,500 living Scandinavians to better understand the genetic history of the ...

Genes are the building blocks of life, and the genetic code provides the instructions for the complex processes that make ...

In 1980, a landmark paper described restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP), a method predateding high volume DNA sequencing, that could be used to identify disease-causing genes. Ray ...

Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary ...

Integrating mechanistic and evolutionary analysis of life history variation / Christian Braendle, Andreas Heyland, and Thomas Flatt -- Genomic insights into life history evolution / Derek A. Roff -- ...

“Any family history of cancer could well be relevant” for individuals who may not realize they could be at risk for genetic cancer, according to an expert. Individuals who have a family history of ...

The Ram Mountain population Data used in this paper were collected between 1973 and 1998 in the bighorn sheep population at Ram Mountain, Alberta (52°N, 115°W; elevation 1082–2173 m). The 38-km 2 ...

When applying ethical principles to the role of race in genomics, autonomy supports both the providing of information to an individual and the individual’s right to remain uninformed. The ethical ...

Baseline AMD severity and fellow-eye status were highly predictive of progression to AAMD. Family history was also predictive, especially for participants with two or more affected family members. The ...

Eye color, dimples, freckles and height are only a few of the traits that might be inherited from a parent or other family member. Depending on family medical history, one also might be more at risk ...