No gene acts alone: interacting variants and protein partnerships can worsen, mask or even rescue disease risk, demanding ...

In natural populations, the mechanisms of evolution do not act in isolation. This is crucially important to conservation geneticists, who grapple with the implications of these evolutionary processes ...

I have spent years covering discoveries that nudge our origin story around the edges, but the sequencing of DNA from one of the very last Neanderthals does something different: it rewrites the center ...

Geographical barriers and cultural differences can prevent people from mingling with their neighbors, leading to genetic isolation — and the phenomenon is more common than most people think. When you ...

ISLAND LIFE is famously idyllic, but it’s long been known that islanders tend to experience disproportionately high rates of some rare genetically transmitted diseases. Faroe islanders, for example, ...

A groundbreaking study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution unveils a fascinating aspect of human prehistory, showing that ancient populations in Papua New Guinea were remarkably isolated from each ...