These findings have increased our understanding of the evolutionary forces that affect the human genome, have augmented our knowledge of gene function and promise to increase our understanding of ...

A decades-long NIH-backed effort to map the human genome has advanced our understanding of genetic risk factors and human ...

Dogs are a good model for studying human obesity because they develop obesity through similar environmental influences as ...

"This has been the theme of the human genome work from the beginning ... but we don't have a good sense of how those variants ...

For more basic information about genes, visit the Glossary. A rough draft of the human genome was completed in June 2000. Efforts are underway to complete a final draft of the human genome ...

People’s health and lifestyle are influenced by the genes of their partners, according to a study published last month (December 14) in Nature Human Behavior ... with one person’s DNA having indirect ...

Research increasingly shows that tackling modifiable exposures and environmental risks could be one of our most powerful ...

“It really does seem that human genome sequence data from somatic cells show signs of LGT events from bacteria, and so do cancer cells,” said Jonathan Eisen from University of California, Davis, who ...

The completion of the human genome has been announced a couple of times in the past, but those were actually incomplete drafts. “We really mean it this time,” says Evan Eichler, a human ...

read and regulate the human genome. Only approximately 1% of our genome consists of genes, sections of DNA that specify the structure and function of proteins. Protein-coding genes are highly ...