African men have a high risk of prostate cancer. Research has found genetic regions associated with this disease.
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The Lemba view is that one can be indigenous to more than one place, and that more than one people can be indigenous to a single place.
Researchers found that people with a specific gene variant were two to eight times more likely to not have symptoms after infection.
Genetic analysis of caribou populations reveals that some groups are genetically more predisposed to migrating than others. But human activities are affecting these behaviours.
Discovery of genetic overlap between chronic pain and a host of other conditions could help provide better treatments.
Genetic research on human behaviour has long been linked with eugenics and continues to attract interest from far-right groups.
Are DNA samples today’s version of the human skeletons that hung in 20th-century natural history museums? They can provide genetic revelations about our species’ history – but at an ethical price.
This research reconciled data and hypotheses from linguistic, archeological and genetic research on the settlement of the Comoros and Madagascar.
A rush of ancient DNA projects in Africa has presented the curators of archaeological skeletons with ethical issues because research requires the destruction of human bone.
Antarctic fur seal numbers are increasingly challenged as changing climates affect food availability. Researchers from the…
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