Today, researchers announced yet another version of the human genome map, which combines the DNA of 47 diverse individuals—Africans, Native Americans, and Asians, among other groups—into one ...

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

A deeper understanding of how DNA changes over generations helps scientists learn why people differ and how diseases develop.

New technologies have revealed widespread structural variation in the human genome, including copy-number variants, insertions, inversions and translocations. These variants are predicted to ...

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 ...

But the research topic is, for obvious reasons, controversial. Scientists have largely steered clear of trying to create full ...

Genetic variation While each person’s genome varies only slightly — by about 0.4% compared to the next person on average — the human genome is massive, consisting of 3.2 billion pairs end to ...

Analysis of sequence variation provides clues about what makes us different from each other and why we respond differently to disease. In an Advanced Online Publication in Nature Genetics, David Reich ...

The roughly two-decade-old human reference genome derives mostly from one man, but is a patchwork quilt of more than 60 people’s DNA (SN: 3/4/21). It has been restitched and added to over the ...

A genome is an organism's genetic blueprint - in this case a human - and contains the information needed for development and growth. But each person's genome varies slightly - about 0.4% on ...

Genetic variation While each person’s genome varies only slightly — by about 0.4% compared to the next person on average — the human genome is massive, consisting of 3.2 billion pairs end to ...