A landmark paper published in GENETICS founded the field of genomic prediction before the requisite technology was available. When a new technology is developed, it...
Complex Traits & Quantitative GeneticsGenetics JournalGenomic Prediction
Congratulations to the winners of the Editors’ Choice Awards for outstanding articles published in GENETICS in 2018! The journal’s Editorial Board considered a diverse range of articles,...
A Wnt protein involved in the formation of the human ovary plays an important role in female zebrafish sex development. Even though zebrafish are...
DevelopmentEvolutionGenetics JournalGenetics of SexZebrafish
An opportunistic human pathogen makes itself at home on old oaks. At one point or another, most people have played host to the common yeast...
Guest author Amir Teicher discusses how the concept of “genetic load” traces its roots back to eugenic thinking, as described in his recent Perspectives article...
Art & CultureGenetics JournalHistory of GeneticsPopulation Genetics
Machine learning and access to ever-expanding databases improves genomic prediction of human traits. In theory, a scientist could predict your height using just your genome...
BioinformaticsComplex Traits & Quantitative GeneticsData & DatabasesGenetics JournalGenomicsHeredityHuman Evolution and Variation
Study of huge Ancestry.com pedigree suggests assortative mating may have inflated previous estimates of life span heritability. Although long life tends to run in families,...
Complex Traits & Quantitative GeneticsGenetics JournalHuman Evolution and Variation
Newly uncovered newspaper articles shed light on Mendel’s motivations. Gregor Mendel is considered by many to be the father of genetics. Yet, because his work...
Mitochondria cell-autonomously regulate the secretion of neuropeptides in C. elegans. Neurons are hard-working cells that need a lot of energy to do their jobs, so...
Holes in the plasma membrane trigger the activation of the Torso receptor tyrosine kinase. As a general rule, cells don’t do well when holes are...
