Human geneticists have discovered that a region of the genome associated with autism contains genetic variation that evolved in the last 250,000 years, after the divergence of humans from ancient hominids, and likely plays ...
Oct 19, 2014
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For millennia, malaria has been a major killer of children in Africa and other parts of the world. In doing so, it has been a major force of evolutionary selection on the human genome.
Oct 15, 2014
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Female populations have been larger than male populations throughout human history, according to research published today in the open access journal Investigative Genetics. The research used a new technique to obtain higher ...
Sep 23, 2014
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Genomic medicine is rapidly developing, bringing with its advances promises of individualized genetic information to tailor and optimize prevention and treatment interventions. Genetic tests are already guiding treatments ...
Sep 23, 2014
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Mobile pieces of DNA can jump around in the human genome and exert powerful regulatory effects on neighboring genes at new insertion sites. The most common mobile genetic elements are known as LINE-1 retrotransposons and ...
Sep 10, 2014
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In the most comprehensive genetic study of the Mexican population to date, researchers from UC San Francisco and Stanford University, along with Mexico's National Institute of Genomic Medicine (INMEGEN), have identified tremendous ...
Jun 12, 2014
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The claim that homosexual men share a "gay gene" created a furore in the 1990s. But new research two decades on supports this claim – and adds another candidate gene.
Jun 2, 2014
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Analysis of genetic variation in the exome, the DNA sequence of genes that are translated into protein, can aid in uncovering the cause of conditions for which no genetic cause could previously be found, and this can directly ...
Jun 1, 2014
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In the most comprehensive exploration of the association between genetic variation and human metabolism, researchers have provided unprecedented insights into how genetic variants influence complex disease and drug response ...
May 11, 2014
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Researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), Harvard Medical School (HMS), the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), and University of Chicago report findings demonstrating how ...
May 1, 2014
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