According to a team of researchers at the University of California, Davis, only a very small percentage of Neanderthal DNA is present in the genomes of...
An international team of researchers has sequenced the complete genome of the Amur leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis), one of the most critically endangered...
A new study published in the journal PLoS Genetics has confirmed a genetic link between mitochondrial DNA, which is passed on from the mother, and some...
A large genome-wide association study of more than 560,000 people has identified 10 new genetic regions associated with the number of children we have...
Dr. Raj Kurupati and colleagues from the Wistar Institute, University of Pennsylvania, and Duke University Medical Center showed that an individual’s...
A team of scientists from the University of Chicago and the University of California, San Diego, has found that migraine sufferers harbor significantly...
A study led by University of Adelaide researcher Julien Soubrier has revealed that prehistoric European cave artists recorded a previously unknown hybrid...
Biologists at Vanderbilt University have discovered DNA of the black widow spider toxin in the genome of a virus that attacks Wolbachia, a type of symbiotic...
Twenty-three new genes involved in risk for autoimmune vitiligo have been identified by an international group of scientists led by the University of Colorado...
Pie charts show the proportion of chromosomes within different populations worldwide that carry a non-working copy of the FLG gene, a primary risk factor...
An international team of researchers from the United States and Germany today reports having sequenced and annotated the genome of the Philippine tarsier....
A group of researchers in the United Kingdom has identified a set of gene families whose sizes are positively associated with an expanded neocortex —...
A team of researchers at Linköping University in Sweden has identified two genomic regions and five candidate genes associated with dog’s human-directed...
The first comprehensive genomic study of Indigenous Australians has revealed that they are indeed the direct descendants of Australia’s earliest settlers...
According to a new study published today in the journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Genetics, smoking leaves historical ‘footprint’ on the human genome...
Giraffes actually are not one species, but four, according to a new study published in the journal Current Biology.
Reticulated giraffe (G. reticulata)...
Researchers from Germany, French Polynesia and the United Kingdom have successfully sequenced and analyzed the genome of a World Health Organization reference...
An international group of researchers has discovered that two regions in the genomes of Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii) are changing in response...
In an animal study, an international team of researchers led by Medical Research Council (MRC) Harwell Institute scientist Dr. Steve Brown has uncovered...
