Rapidly mutating DNA regions were mapped using a multi-generational family and advanced sequencing tools. Understanding how ...

More than 20 years after people got a peek at the first draft of the human genome ... from originals elsewhere in the DNA. Those duplicated parts are changing faster than nonduplicated portions ...

These heritable changes make up the “epigenome”—persistent patterns of DNA modifications that don’t alter the underlying gene sequences. Now, two decades after the Human Genome Project, a team of ...

Duke University Medical Center-led research has identified a human-specific DNA enhancer that regulates neural progenitor ...

When scientists and clinicians study an individual’s genome, they compare the individuals’ DNA to that of a standard reference ... In fact, the Y chromosome is the most rapidly changing human ...

A small segment of human DNA boosts brain size and complexity, revealing both the origins of intelligence and its ...

Scientists have found that 20% of our DNA may come from a mysterious ancestor, according to WP. This discovery changes how we understand human evolution ... the 1000 Genomes Project, which ...

The Human Genome Project was among the most ambitious scientific ... The sequence of some 3 billion DNA base pairs that comprise our genome was supposed to be a mosaic, assembled from multiple ...

proving invaluable for the Human Genome Project. Four generations of the family have donated DNA and consented to its analysis, which allowed the researchers an extraordinarily in-depth look at how ...

Knowing how human DNA changes over generations is essential ... proving invaluable for the Human Genome Project. Four generations of the family have donated DNA and consented to its analysis ...

Knowing how human DNA changes over generations is essential ... proving invaluable for the Human Genome Project. Four generations of the family have donated DNA and consented to its analysis ...