Genome-wide sequencing approaches are increasingly being used in place of disease gene panel sequencing approaches. Despite the well-recognized benefits of these approaches, they also carry with them ...

Orthologues and paralogues are types of homologous genes that are related by speciation or duplication, respectively. Orthologous genes are generally assumed to retain equivalent functions in ...

Researchers disagree on the number of genes in the human genome, in part because what exactly a gene is can be difficult to determine. At the turn of the century, while awaiting the completion of the ...