In the ongoing effort to determine just how much of who we are is preordained by our genetic code, heritability, a statistical measurement of how much variation in a trait can be attributed to genetic ...

AlphaGenome is a DNA sequence model that advances regulatory variant-effect prediction to understand genome function.

Many factors influence how long you live, such as diet, exercise, smoking, drinking, environment and other variables. It also ...

Animal breeding has traditionally focused on improving mean trait performance; however, contemporary research increasingly highlights the significance of genetic variation not only in trait means but ...

The COVID-19 pandemic gave us tremendous perspective on how wildly symptoms and outcomes can vary between patients ...

The human genome is organised in 46 chromosomes, where all but the x and y chromosomes in men are present in two copies. This means that a person with a faulty gene on one chromosome most often has a ...

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Genomic analysis across 14 psychiatric disorders reveals extensive shared genetic architecture, challenging diagnostic boundaries.

For the first time, researchers at King's College London and the University of Florence have identified the specific genetic ...

By Dr. Priyom Bose, Ph.D. By analyzing bowel movement frequency in more than 268,000 people, researchers uncover how thiamine ...