The past decade has delivered landmark advances in human and medical genomics that shape how we understand disease mechanisms ...

A reanalysis of twin data from Denmark and Sweden suggests that how long we live now depends roughly equally on the genes we ...

In the ongoing effort to determine just how much of who we are is preordained by our genetic code, heritability, a statistical measurement of how much variation in a trait can be attributed to genetic ...

Most research in human genetics has historically focused on people of European ancestries—a long-standing bias that may limit the accuracy of scientific predictions for people from other populations.

Using single-cell epigenomic profiling of immune cells from 110 individuals, researchers show that genetic variation and ...

Structural variants (SVs) are alterations in the DNA sequence that involve large-scale changes, typically longer than 50 base pairs. Advances in long-read sequencing have significantly increased ...

Veronica Paulus is a former STAT intern supported by the Harvard University Institute of Politics. Complex regions of the human genome remained uncharted, even after researchers sequenced the genome ...

No matter how much they brush their teeth, some people still get more cavities than others, in part because of differences in ...

By studying genetic data from nearly 140,000 IVF embryos, scientists have with unprecedented detail revealed why fewer than ...