revealing its unique genetic makeup and its divergence from the rest of the mammals around 160 million years ago. Now, a greater effort to understand its ecological and population history has been ...

Genetic variation within a population is measured according to the number of different alleles of all genes and the frequency with which they appear. Variation is high when there are many ...

While he had observed the variations existent in every population ... Genetic disorders are conditions that result when malfunctioning proteins adversely affect the organism. [Gallery: Images ...

The first project to sequence whole genomes from mountain gorillas reveals that many harmful genetic variations have been removed from the population through inbreeding, that mountain gorillas are ...

We describe the astonishing changes and progress that have occurred in the field of population genetics over the past 50 years, slightly longer than the time since the first Population Genetics ...

A big federal research project aimed at reducing racial ... "The sheer quantify of genetic data in a really diverse population for the first time creates a powerful foundation for researchers ...

For the first time, an international study has deciphered the genome of the population of Brazil. Published in the journal ...

Bettmann / Getty Images As a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, Emilia Huerta-Sánchez noticed something strange in the fine print of an old population genetics study.

Scientists have uncovered more than 275 million previously unknown gene variants in the U.S. population, thanks to an ongoing project that aims to increase the diversity of the human genetic data ...

The story so far: The preliminary findings of the GenomeIndia project ... and unrelated Indians from 83 population groups, were published in the journal Nature Genetics on April 8.

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — A genetic study of Asian elephants in northern Cambodia published Thursday reveals a larger and more robust population ... by the results of the project," said Alex ...