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 ...

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 ...

For the first time, an international study has deciphered the genome of the population of Brazil. Published in the journal Science, the research includes the African, Native American, and European ...

appeared in PLOS Genetics under the title 'Distinct genetic variation and heterogeneity of the Iranian population'. In this project, initiated by Professor Michael Nothnagel from the Cologne Center ...

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.

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.