Quick Take Inbreeding occurs when relatives mate and can cause inbreeding depression, with abnormalities, health issues, and ...

Historic population bottlenecks left cheetahs genetically similar, increasing disease risk and threatening long-term survival ...

Humans are still evolving, and Tatum Simonson, PhD, founder and co-director of the Center for Physiological Genomics of Low Oxygen at University of California School of Medicine, plans to use ...

Without bumble bees, a flowering plant that can self-pollinate lost substantial genetic variation within only nine generations, an experimental study found. A group of 'selfing' monkeyflower plants ...

Investigations suggest V2P may be efficiently applied for the automated identification of causal variants in simulated and actual patient sequencing data across phenotypes.