Somewhere between 2% and 19% of the genetic ancestry carried by present-day West African populations traces back to an ...

Every human face is unique, allowing us to distinguish between individuals. We know little about how facial features are encoded in our DNA, but we may be able to learn more about how our faces ...

What makes the human brain distinctive? A new study published in Cell identifies two genes linked to human brain features and provides a road map to discover many more. The research could lead to ...

A tiny portion of the human genome may have had a surprisingly large impact on our ability to develop language. New research ...

A deeper understanding of how DNA changes over generations helps scientists learn why people differ and how diseases develop. Until recently, many fast-changing parts of the human genome remained ...

Published in Genome Biology, the research team analyzed genomic data from over 3,000 individuals in the general population and found that about seven percent of STRs in the human genome show ...

Human remains have been increasingly studied using interdisciplinary approaches. These have enabled researchers to ...

Many repetitive regions of the genome have been considered "junk DNA" because the available technologies did not allow them to be studied at sufficient resolution. This is the case for the SST1/NBL2 ...