Clinicians' ability to diagnose and treat chronic diseases is limited by scientific uncertainty around factors contributing ...

A new genome-wide study uncovers evidence of the first three-way relationships between human genetic variation, variation in ...

Clinicians' ability to diagnose and treat chronic diseases is limited by scientific uncertainty around factors contributing to disease risk. A study published September 2 nd in the open-access journal ...

Twenty-two years after the completion of the Human Genome Project, scientists have unveiled the most expansive catalog of human genetic variation ever compiled. Across two new papers published ...

A variation in the gene PICALM has a profound effect on microglia function, increasing the risk of Alzheimer's developing.

Veronica Paulus is a former STAT intern supported by the Harvard University Institute of Politics. Complex regions of the human genome remained uncharted, even after researchers sequenced the genome ...

A number of studies have highlighted that ethnicity is an important factor influencing the genetic variability of some CYP450 enzymes and that human adaptation could have a role in shaping the genetic ...