Identifying signatures of polygenic adaptation is getting easier—but a commentary calls for caution in drawing conclusions. If you’ve ever wished for a stepstool so you...

Complex Traits & Quantitative GeneticsGWASHuman Evolution & VariationPopulation Genetics

Symptoms of schizophrenia most commonly begin to creep up in young adulthood. Although genetics play a major role in this complex disorder, narrowing down the...

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Chickens that “chicken out” in unfamiliar surroundings may shed light on anxiety in humans, according to research published in the January 2016 issue of the...

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As ancient humans spread across the globe from their evolutionary birthplace in Africa, they tended to lose a little genetic diversity at each step along...

GWASHuman Evolution & VariationPopulation Genetics

By the time President Obama announced the Precision Medicine Initiative in January 2015, the Genetic Epidemiology Research on Adult Health and Aging (GERA) cohort was...

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The most diverse of all human genes encode a set of proteins at the frontline of our immune system. Many different Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA)...

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One of the major risk factors for autoimmune diseases is being born with two copies of the X chromosome. For example, women—who typically carry two...

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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...

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