Copy number variation ... paradigm for the genetic basis of human diseases. Instead of considering disease to be largely the result of common genetic variants that have been inherited for ...

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) help scientists understand the inheritance ... 1.8 million different genetic markers. When a fragment of DNA from a test sample hybridizes to a probe on ...

The future of genotyping is characterized by its expanding impact across medicine, research, agriculture, and personal ...

The $150 test usually gives people results in less than two weeks but experts warn that the information might be “harmful” to ...

The founder effect is an extreme example of "genetic drift." Genes occurring at a certain frequency in the larger population will occur at a different frequency -- more or less often -- in a ...

Duke-NUS scientists investigated how an inherited genetic variation common among East Asians contributes to drug resistance in cancer cells, driving more aggressive cancer growth. Singapore ...

In this study, we assessed the risk contributed by inherited genetic variants to ... was designed and optimised to capture African genetic variations. We identified three loci (genetic regions ...