Genetics News

For the first time, scientists have sequenced and analyzed the nuclear and mitochondrial DNA of the Cameroon scaly-tail (Zenkerella insignis), one of Africa’s...

A team of scientists led by Dr. Ole Andreassen of the University of Oslo in Norway and the University of California, San Diego, has found evidence for...

An international team of researchers from Singapore and the United Kingdom has identified an enzyme that regulates the production of sperm and egg cells...

According to an international team of scientists led by Dr. Nicholas Mundy at the University of Cambridge, a gene for red color vision that originated...

A team of researchers has identified 17 genetic variations associated with depression in individuals of European ancestry. The team identified 17 new genetic...

An international team of scientists has obtained and analyzed the genome of five barley grains that date back to the Chalcolithic period, about 6,000 years...

The genome of Neanderthals contained harmful gene variants that made them around 40 percent less reproductively fit than modern humans. And non-Africans...

Dogs may have been domesticated independently in Asia and Europe from two separate wolf populations, according to a new study led by the University of...

An international team of scientists from Lebanon, Tunisia, France and New Zealand has sequenced the complete mitochondrial genome of the ‘Young Man of...

A multinational team of researchers led by University College London (UCL) has found four genes that impact nose shape. Image showing variation between...

An international team of researchers has sequenced the genomes of the giraffe and its closest living relative, the okapi, and — through comparative...

An international team of genetic researchers from the United States and Europe has found new evidence that there was an Ice Age refugium in southern Arabia. Spatial...

In a paper published in the journal Genetics, scientists from the University of North Dakota and the University of Minnesota present multiple lines of...

Analyses of genome-wide data from 51 Eurasians from 7,000 – 45,000 years ago reveal two big changes in prehistoric human populations that are closely...

An international team of scientists has completely sequenced the mitochondrial genome of the Hispaniolan solenodon (a venomous, insectivorous mammal that...

An international team of scientists from New Zealand, Australia and the UK — including Prof. Colin Willoughby from the University of Liverpool —...

In a large-scale international study, researchers have identified three genetic variants associated with subjective well-being (happiness), two variants...

An international team of researchers from Uppsala University and Princeton University has identified a specific gene that within a year helped spur a permanent...

A study led by Dr. Kieren Mitchell of the University of Adelaide sheds new light on the evolution of what are believed to be the largest bears that ever...