The myriad medical breakthroughs predicted to come from the sequencing of the human genome have yet to pour freely. The idea that genes related to common diseases and unique drug responses can be ...

A new study reveals that Tibetan communities have developed unique adaptations to survive in the low-oxygen conditions of the ...

Structural variants in the human genome include cytogenetically detectable and submicroscopic deletions, duplications, large-scale copy-number variants, inversions and translocations. The ability ...

Genetic variation among human races can be observed in almost any trait, from the physical and biochemical, to disease resistance. What role do single nucleotide polymorphisms play in this?

The research, published in Cell Reports, may help explain variations in human personality and could even lead to the ...