Researchers still do not have a comprehensive picture of the factors that influence gene expression in human cancers. Understanding gene expression in cancer is important because it can reveal how the ...

A study expands the list of known genes with circadian variation and provides the first comprehensive list of genes with seasonal variation in each tissue. Tissues in the thoracic cavity, such as the ...

Despite incredible advances in genomics, the NGS data interpretation workflow for hereditary diseases remains challenging. The field is rapidly evolving, and novel findings are uncovered daily, ...

The daily rotation of Earth and its yearly voyage around the Sun marks the natural rhythm of life on the planet. Human health indicators such as body temperature, blood pressure and sleep, as well as ...

Inherited variations in antibody genes can affect how we respond to infections and vaccines, show two new studies from ...

In this session we introduce the type of common genetic variation that is typically analyzed in a GWAS and outline some of the important concepts that underlay the quality control and analysis of ...

In the world of threatened and endangered species conservation, the genomic revolution has raised some complicated questions: How can scientists justify assessing species genetic diversity without ...

Two complementary genome-wide association studies provide new insights into how host genetics influence the human gut microbiome.

Plant cells host a variety of organelles segregated into distinct functional groups. Among those organelles, the nucleus, ...