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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...
Fundamental ResearchGene ExpressionGenetics JournalGWASHuman Disease
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...
BehaviorComplex Traits & Quantitative GeneticsDomesticationGenetics JournalGWASHuman DiseaseLivestockMouse & Rat
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...
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...
AgingGenetics JournalGenomicsGWASHuman DiseasePopulation Genetics
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)...
BioinformaticsG3 JournalGenomicsGWASHuman DiseaseImmune SystemPopulation GeneticsSequencing
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...
ChromosomesComplex Traits & Quantitative GeneticsGenetics of SexGSA on siteGWASHuman DiseaseHuman Evolution & Variation
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
