Domestic pigs bred with wild boar after the nuclear disaster offer lessons in wildlife genetics and invasive species management.

According to a study conducted by researchers at the University of Cambridge, modern humans descended not from a single ...

Tsukuba, Japan—Historical climatic fluctuations have profoundly influenced species distributions and genetic structures. Traditionally, past distributional patterns have been inferred using ...

Millions thrive at high altitudes due to remarkable genetic adaptations. Tibetans, for instance, possess a gene variant allowing efficient oxygen use without dangerously thick blood. Andeans and ...

Researchers at the University of Chicago Medicine have developed a set of polygenic risk score (PRS) models that significantly improved the ability to predict breast cancer risk in women of African ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . WASHINGTON — A model predicting the development of systemic lupus erythematosus, based on genetic, lifestyle and ...

Researchers at Academia Sinica have developed the first population-specific polygenic risk score (PRS) models for people of Han Chinese ancestry, achieving unprecedented accuracy in predicting risks ...

A novel genetic model suggests that the ancestors of modern humans came from two distinct populations that split and reconnected during our evolutionary history. When you purchase through links on our ...

A new genetic study examines an unusually large hybridization event that followed the Fukushima nuclear accident, when ...

Researchers at McGill University and the United States Forest Service have found that plants living in areas where human ...