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Art & CultureComplex Traits & Quantitative GeneticsEvolutionPEQGPopulation Genetics
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 GeneticsGenetics JournalGWASHuman Evolution & VariationPopulation Genetics
Population data from Quebec reveals the genetic consequences of rapid human expansions. The majority of the 6.5 million French Canadians living in Quebec today can...
The mitochondria powering your cells are not all genetically identical. Genetic variation across the mitochondria of a single individual is common. This diversity is called...
Genetics JournalHuman Evolution & VariationPopulation Genetics
Biologists rely on animal models to answer important questions that can’t be addressed with cells in a dish. Often, these animals are deliberately inbred; a...
BioinformaticsComplex Traits & Quantitative GeneticsG3 JournalMammalsModel OrganismsMouse & RatPopulation GeneticsReproducibility
Archaeologists have long known how to extract millennia-old stories from a single tooth buried in an ancient ruin—and now geneticists have the tools to join...
AgricultureEvolutionFundamental ResearchGenetics JournalHeredityHuman Evolution and VariationPopulation GeneticsPrimates
The Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal is awarded to an individual member of the Genetics Society of America for lifetime achievement in the field of genetics....
Over three centuries, as many as a million enslaved people were shipped to the Colombian port of Cartagena. From this hub of the slave trade,...
They rattle as warning, but during the hunt their strike is silent and sudden. Any rabbit or mouse targeted by a rattlesnake is doomed—the snake’s...
Complex TraitsEvolutionGene ExpressionPopulation GeneticsReptilesWildlife
Humans built the modern world with the help of domestic plants and animals. A byproduct of our many domestication experiments is a series of excellent...
DomesticationEvolutionG3 JournalGenomicsLivestockPopulation Genetics