When people think of DNA, they usually think of genes, the parts that code for proteins and drive inherited traits. But there ...

UC Santa Cruz scientists, along with a consortium of researchers, have released a draft of the first human pangenome—a new, usable reference for genomics that combines the genetic information of 47 ...

The deciphered DNA includes never-before-explored parts of the genome and better represents the genetic diversity of all humans.

An international research team has deciphered a mechanism of the evolutionary arms race in human cells. The findings provide ...

Cultural variation in human diet clearly explains some of the adaptive genetic differences between human populations. One compelling example of a human-culture-initiated selective sweep concerns ...

This research highlights the association between AMY1 gene copy number and salivary enzyme activity, with implications for ...

The newly released pangenome is a more complete, inclusive set of human genetic material than had been previously created.

But the research topic is, for obvious reasons, controversial. Scientists have largely steered clear of trying to create full synthetic human genomes, wary of propelling us into a dystopian, Gattaca ...

Twenty years ago last month, scientists sequenced the first human genome in the landmark Human Genome Project. Among the many things they discovered was that while any two humans have 99.6 percent ...

A deeper understanding of how DNA changes over generations helps scientists learn why people differ and how diseases develop. Until recently, many fast-changing parts of the human genome remained ...

But they’ve long known that this template for comparison, or “reference genome,” has serious limits because it doesn’t reflect the spectrum of human diversity.

It represents many different versions of the human genome sequence at the same time, and gives scientists a more accurate point of comparison for variation that is present in some populations but not ...