One in every 10 people worldwide is impacted by a rare genetic disease but about 50% of them remain undiagnosed despite rapid ...

Understanding biological relationships is often critical when studying animal populations. Researchers have now developed a transformative approach that identifies stretches of DNA that two ...

Understanding biological relationships is often critical when studying animal populations. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig University, the German ...

The financial privacy of the royals has long fascinated the public. This secrecy is upheld through customs such as sealing ...

Grey bands for each mutation type show the 95% credible intervals averaged over each population. Performance to detect simulated hard, soft, and incomplete sweeps under varying strengths of selection ...

Here's what you should know about genes and longevity, and where genetics fits in among the various theories of aging. The genetic theory of aging states that lifespan is largely determined by the ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a 77-year-old female. After experiencing hair thinning for over a year, I was diagnosed with incomplete lupus by a rheumatologist. My blood markers were high, but I don’t ...

Specific technical issues such as allele dropout, false-positive errors, and doublets make scDNA-seq data incomplete and error-prone, giving rise to a severe challenge of accurately inferring clonal ...

Plant genetics deals with heredity in plants, specifically mechanisms of hereditary transmission and variation of inherited characteristics. Plant genetics differs from animal genetics in a number ...

Importance Genetic testing of hereditary cancer using comprehensive gene panels can identify patients with more than one pathogenic mutation in high and/or moderate-risk-associated cancer genes. This ...

If we live the comfortable, adventurous lives we want to over the next 20 years, we don't expect there will be much left for an inheritance. We even plan to sell the house, which is paid off ...