Most genetic association studies focus on bi-allelic single nucleotide variants (SNVs). Here, to investigate the possibility that multi-allelic variation of short tandem repeats influences human ...

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Dec. 9, 2024 — A research team has uncovered a molecular strategy employed by worm parasites (helminths) to evade host immune defenses. This discovery opens new avenues for the development of ...

For the second consecutive year, three faculty members in the Department of Biology have received National Institutes of ...

Here the authors describe a genomic dataset, the1000 Chinese Indigenous Pig Genomes Project (1KCIGP), based on the whole-genome sequencing of 1,011 Chinese domestic pigs from 50 distinct ...

A new study on anglerfish evolution reveals how these deep-sea creatures adapted to the extreme bathypelagic zone, achieving ...

Arctic foxes were almost hunted to extinction in Sweden, Norway and Finland. Can projects to breed and feed them help this ...

Dec. 6, 2024 — Researchers have unraveled how immune cells called microglia can transform and drive harmful processes like neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's disease. ... Close Encounters Between ...

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This manuscript applies a theoretical analysis to two published datasets on yeast and bacterial evolution to compare different ways of quantifying fitness. It makes an important advance by clarifying ...