An ancient, shared set of human-specific genes underwent changes in a geographically isolated population after around 300,000 years ago, scientists say.

In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new ...

Human gene maps contain major blind spots because they were built largely from the DNA sequences of people with European ...

By Vijay Kumar Malesu By combining deep evolutionary signals with human population data, the popEVE model provides a novel ...

Scientists discovered that the first 100 base pairs of human genes are unusually prone to mutations, especially during the earliest stages of embryonic development. These mosaic mutations often go ...

Next-generation sequencing technologies have catapulted the field of genomics back into the spotlight thanks to fast, accurate, and historically low-cost sequencing methods. As of today, the cost of ...

A watercolor artist’s interpretation of the relationship between the human genome and gut mycobiome. Created by Amy Bean, watercolor journalist and mom of first author Emily Van Syoc. Clinicians’ ...

“The important part of the work is the large number of [exomes],” Stephen Scherer, who studies variation in the human genome at the Hospital for Sick Children and the University of Toronto, Canada, ...