A new genome-wide study uncovers evidence of the first three-way relationships between human genetic variation, variation in ...

Clinicians’ ability to diagnose and treat chronic diseases is limited by scientific uncertainty around factors contributing ...

Clinicians' ability to diagnose and treat chronic diseases is limited by scientific uncertainty around factors contributing ...

Extensive genetic variation underpinning phenotypic traits exists in natural plant populations, and this is intimately connected to the process of evolutionary adaptation. Importantly, such genetic ...

The present theory offers a unified solution to three closely related evolutionary problems. (1) Why does an evolving population explore only a small fraction of the accessible pathways in genotype ...

In October 1990, biologists officially embarked on one of the century’s most ambitious scientific efforts: reading the 3 billion pairs of genetic subunits — the A’s, T’s, C’s and G’s — that make up ...

The human genome is organised in 46 chromosomes, where all but the x and y chromosomes in men are present in two copies. This means that a person with a faulty gene on one chromosome most often has a ...

Risk factors for developing breast cancer include being female, increasing age, being overweight, alcohol consumption and ...

Gene editing may hold the key to rescuing endangered species—not just by preserving them, but by restoring their lost genetic diversity using DNA from museum specimens and related species. Scientists ...

Researchers from the Belgian Federal Institute Sciensano, as part of the DARWIN project, have developed a proof-of-concept ...