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A new study has developed a powerful computational method that can detect how genes interact with each other to influence complex traits in humans at a scale previously impossible.

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Whether you turn red when drinking alcohol, dislike certain smells, or metabolize drugs differently from others, the ...

Today's biomedical researchers are relentlessly searching for genes that drive disease, with the goal of creating therapies ...

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...