Ancestry and lifestyle choices of parents may affect the rate and type of new genetic changes that arise in their children, ...

Researchers have discovered the genetic region responsible for blackberries' deployment of a type of pointy self-protection: ...

DNA is the genetic code that provides the biological instructions for every living species, but not every bit of DNA helps ...

a catalog of common human genetic variation that was completed in 2015. The team is in the process of recruiting new individuals to represent some populations not included in the 1000 Genomes ...

Darwinian evolution is the process by which natural selection results in genetic ... Bonnet and the team were able to quantify this genetic variation, which is what controls how much natural selection ...

Plants that reproduce exclusively by self-pollination arise from populations with extremely low diversity to begin with. Kobe ...

A study of 10,000 parent-child trios reveals that children’s new genetic mutations vary slightly by parental ancestry and ...

ROC curves indicated that the inclusion of shared within-host variation improved prediction accuracy. Shared minority variants declined with an increase in genetic distance between samples among ...

The study revealed that the genetic variation that causes DM1—tandem ... found that the effects of TREs interfere with a critical process called gene splicing, which is essential for gene ...

The report says researchers should not use race as a proxy for describing human genetic variation. Race is a social concept, but it is often used in genomics and genetics research as a surrogate for ...