Monash University scientists have uncovered how invasive plants like white clover rapidly adapt to new environments, revealing genetic changes that underpin their global success.

The genetic basis of inbreeding depression and of the related phenomenon, heterosis, has been a puzzle for many decades. Based on recent studies in many species, the authors argue that both ...

FSTdescribes the processes that lead to genetic differentiation among and within populations and is widely used in population and evolutionary genetics. This article describes the meaning ofFSTand ...

Abstract The objective of this study was to establish classification ranges for genetic and additive genetic coefficients of variation, as well as for broad and narrow sense heritability, as a ...

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

Genetic variation also plays a major role. It doesn’t encode trauma itself, but it shapes traits such as sensitivity to ...

Many genetic variants have been identified in humans and different variation classes are recognized (i.e., SNPs, copy-number variants, insertions, deletions and inversions).

Researchers have demonstrated a specific type of genetic variation in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) for the first time using advanced DNA sequencing technology. The findings support previous ...

Twenty-seven states and the District of Columbia have sued the bankrupt genetic testing company 23andMe in an effort to block the company's sale of its customers' genetic data.

To study the genetic causes of autism spectrum disorder, a Kobe University research team has created a bank of 63 mouse embryonic stem cell lines containing the mutations most strongly associated ...

Regardless of type, genetics alone doesn’t cause diabetes mellitus, but certain types, like type 2 diabetes and gestational diabetes, have a genetic link. Learn more about what causes diabetes ...

Dynamic flexible job shop scheduling is an important but difficult combinatorial optimization problem that has numerous real-world applications. Genetic programming (GP) has been widely used to evolve ...