This thread of genetic similarity connects us and the roughly 10 million other species in the modern world to the entire history of life, back to a single common ancestor more than 3.5 billion ...

Most common diseases and most quantitative traits that can be measured in human populations are complex genetic traits. That is, many genetic and nongenetic factors interact to determine the final ...

Instead of considering disease to be largely the result of common genetic variants that have been inherited for countless generations, geneticists now recognize that large, rare structural ...