Insertion-deletion markers (InDels) have rapidly emerged as a robust alternative to conventional short tandem repeats in both forensic science and population genetics. Owing to their biallelic nature, ...

Researchers at Academia Sinica have developed the first population-specific polygenic risk score (PRS) models for people of ...

Because of natural selection, different alleles are more likely to confer a survival advantage in different environments. Cycles of infectious disease prevalence and virulence often reflect natural ...

Family has always been important to those working in population genetics. When Sohini Ramachandran was a postdoc, the issue ...

“The fact that we can reconstruct events from hundreds of thousands or millions of years ago just by looking at DNA today is astonishing,” stated Aylwyn Scally of Cambridge University. That sums up ...

In the context of an area-wide integrated pest management (AW-IPM) applied to tsetse flies that are vectors of African Trypanosomosis (AT), which remains one of the major constraints to agriculture ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

Grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon Idella) is an important economic fish for freshwater aquaculture, with the total global output of grass carp in 2023 standing at 5,941,315 million tons. The exploring and ...