Populations occupying heterogeneous environments may evolve locally advantageous traits under divergent selection pressures 1. How different forms of genetic variation contribute to such environmental ...

Decades of genetic association testing in human cohorts have provided important insights into the genetic architecture and biological underpinnings of complex traits and diseases. However, for certain ...

A new study challenges the conventional wisdom surrounding genome stability within closely related organisms and sheds new light on the mechanisms underlying extensive genome size variation. Our ...

The evolution of the MUC7 gene, which encodes a saliva protein, was studied by scientists at the University at Buffalo. To capture the gene’s proline-, threonine-, and serine-rich tandem repeat copy ...