In less than 50 years, the field of genetics has evolved rapidly, from solving the structure of DNA to obtaining our first glimpse of the nucleotide sequence of the human genome. Cracking the ...

Structural variants in the human genome include cytogenetically detectable and submicroscopic deletions, duplications, large-scale copy-number variants, inversions and translocations. The ability ...

A genome contains all the information needed for an individual to develop and function. (Image: National Human Genome Research Institute) The genome is composed of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), which ...

For more basic information about genes, visit the Glossary. A rough draft of the human genome was completed in June 2000. Efforts are underway to complete a final draft of the human genome ...

It continues 25 years of research at deCODE genetics into how new diversity is generated in the human genome, and its relationship to health and disease. The new map, appearing today in the online ...

The genetic information in an organism is called its genome. The Human Genome Project, or HGP for short, was started at the end of the last century. It was very ambitious and had several aims ...

Scientists have successfully engineered the most complicated human cell lines ever, indicating that our genomes are more tolerant to significant structural alterations than previously assumed.

SEATTLE — Our understanding of the human genome has come a long way since the ... In a major global effort, still awaiting peer review in the pre-print journal bioRxiv, scientists analyzed ...

Protein-coding versus noncoding genes When deciding the number of genes in the human genome, Human Genome Project researchers initially counted protein-coding genes—regions of chromosomal DNA that are ...

“It really does seem that human genome sequence data from somatic cells show signs of LGT events from bacteria, and so do cancer cells,” said Jonathan Eisen from University of California, Davis, who ...