No gene acts alone: interacting variants and protein partnerships can worsen, mask or even rescue disease risk, demanding ...

In natural populations, the mechanisms of evolution do not act in isolation. This is crucially important to conservation geneticists, who grapple with the implications of these evolutionary processes ...

I have spent years covering discoveries that nudge our origin story around the edges, but the sequencing of DNA from one of the very last Neanderthals does something different: it rewrites the center ...

ISLAND LIFE is famously idyllic, but it’s long been known that islanders tend to experience disproportionately high rates of some rare genetically transmitted diseases. Faroe islanders, for example, ...

* Evolutionary gene loss has steadily reduced the Y chromosome to a small set of essential genes * Gene// conversion may increase variation but does not restore lost genetic function * Future sex ...

Variants of APOE gene, that control brain waste clearance are linked to 90% of Alzheimer’s cases. Targeting its protein can ...