For decades, geneticists have known that most common illnesses are not caused by a single rogue gene but by intricate constellations of DNA variants acting together in specific cells. Now a new ...
A first of its kind study recently published in Nature Genetics that included 9,000 Americans of European or African ancestry has generated maps of DNA-to-protein links for both groups. Proteins play ...
One of the most amazing phenomena in biology is the precisely coordinated expression of thousands of genes in an organism: every gene must be expressed at the right time, in the right place. Not ...