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

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 ...

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?

Their skin faded as they moved north, because lighter-skinned humans survived Vitamin D deficiency and lived to reproduce. It took many generations to result in the variation of our species.