Anthropological genetics investigates the interplay between human genetic variation and cultural, social and historical contexts. It examines how patterns of DNA diversity inform biogeographic ...

Medical genetics is the discipline that examines how variation in our DNA underlies health and disease. It spans rare, highly penetrant single-gene disorders and the more complex, multifactorial ...

In Mendelian inheritance patterns, you receive one version of a gene, called an allele, from each parent. These alleles can be dominant or recessive. Non-Mendelian genetics don’t completely follow ...

Click here to view Volume I of this Research TopicThe domestication of animals and plants during the early Holocene marked a pivotal transition that led to ...

The heart and brain are among the earliest and most metabolically demanding organs in human development. Though historically studied in isolation, both ...