(CN) — A founder event — the formation of a new population from a small number of ancestral individuals — can be set off by a dramatic reduction of the original group or migration. These events ...

Researchers at Academia Sinica have developed the first population-specific polygenic risk score (PRS) models for people of Han Chinese ancestry, achieving unprecedented accuracy in predicting risks ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will establish an ad hoc committee to conduct a study to review and assess existing methodologies, benefits, and challenges in the use of ...

The fossil and genetic evidence agree that modern humans originated in Africa. The most genetically diverse human populations ...

Chronic wasting disease, a prion protein disease that is fatal in elk, deer, and other cervids, has spread rapidly across the United States since it was first identified in 1967. CWD has now reached ...

In a recent article published in JAMA Network Open, researchers investigated the role of genetics in the phenotypic association between screen time and psychiatric problems using a large ...

The 2025 International Statistical Genetics Workshop will be held in Boulder, Colorado from March 3 to 7. Matthew Keller is the local host with Ben Neale and Dave Evans as the academic directors. This ...