One feverish night, just over 100 years ago, an undergraduate in Thomas Hunt Morgan’s lab created the first genetic map. Realizing that the frequency of...
Y chromosomes have come and gone many times during evolutionary history. Take beetles. When Heath Blackmon and Jeff Demuth modeled sex chromosome evolution in more than...
For genome-wide association studies, data is power. The more data you have, the more statistical power you wield to find genetic associations. But are there...
Complex Traits & Quantitative GeneticsGenetics JournalGenomicsGWASHuman Disease
In Eurasia, humans once had Neanderthals for neighbors. That time of co-existence seems to have left its marks in our genome; non-Africans today share more genetic...
EvolutionGenetics JournalGenomicsHuman Evolution & VariationPopulation Genetics
Do aging males make poorer quality sperm? Older mothers face a well-established risk of producing eggs with chromosome abnormalities, but it is less clear how...
Transposable elements don’t proliferate in genomes at a steady pace; they often arrive in bursts. But models of neutral TE evolution assume transposition occurs at...
DrosophilaGenetics JournalPopulation GeneticsTransposable Elements
