genetics

A study led by researchers at McMaster University has pinpointed a gene that is responsible for neurodevelopmental disorders, including autism. Researchers found alterations of the gene thousand and one amino-acid kinase 2, known as TAOK2, plays a direct role in these disorders. This is the...

An international team of researchers has produced one of the most comprehensive evolutionary pictures to date by looking at one of the world's most iconic animal families - namely elephants, and their relatives mammoths and mastodons-spanning millions of years. The team of scientists-which...

Hi, I'm wondering what I should do with my raw data files for both my y haplogroup and mtDNA analysis respectively? How can I better find out exactly what haplogroup I belong to with the data I have at the moment? If you need me to better outline exactly what my .csv files look like, then it...

Union College has purportedly stumbled across an historic find hidden in the contents of a library book -- but the school is resisting a DNA test that could confirm the centuries-old find. A librarian cataloging historic books in the Schenectady, New York, school's archive believes he stumbled...

Although the Grand Egyptian Museum overlooking Giza Plateau will celebrate a soft opening in December, it is the Egyptian Museum which will remain one of Egypt’s archaeological icons. To highlight some of its distinguished treasured collections, the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir overlooking Giza...

It is called MinION, it costs about as much as the new iphone. This will have very big implications. https://www.nature.com/articles/nbt.4060

Many researchers assume the first life on Earth evolved in hot springs. A new study provides insights into how one type of extremophile microbe may have moved from hot springs to conquer more moderate environments across the globe. The first-ever analysis of DNA of one ammonia-oxidizing...

According to a new study, consuming alcohol has been attributed to seven types of cancer. Moreover, it can cause mutations in stem cells, and damage chromosomes. When we consume alcohol, the body produces a chemical known as acetaldehyde, which causes genetic damage. Acetaldehyde is specifically...

Ivan Mestrovic is the famous Croatian sculptor whose art is still displayed in some prominent locations in America, Croatia, and Serbia. His talent maybe related to his DNA. What do we know, if anything, about his autosomal or Y-DNA? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Me%C5%A1trovi%C4%87

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25173 Despite broad agreement that the Americas were initially populated via Beringia, the land bridge that connected far northeast Asia with northwestern North America during the Pleistocene epoch, when and how the peopling of the Americas occurred remains...

Personally, I've never once in my life received a flu shot. Not that I have reservations against it, I just... never got one. I really don't know enough about the vaccine to have an opinion. Nevertheless, I've only contracted the flu a couple of times in my whole life. If my job required that I...

Very interesting, considering the spread of language and culture verses the genetic implications. I need to read this a bit further when I get a chance.

GOOD! despite Chuck Schumer's dumb war on DNA testing, people are not listening.

Merry Christmas! Scientists will conduct DNA analysis on the bones of Saint Nicholas.

When police in London recently trialled a new facial recognition system, they made a worrying and embarrassing mistake. At the Notting Hill Carnival, the technology made roughly 35 false matches between known suspects and members of the crowd, with one person “erroneously” arrested...

For those who still thought of Neanderthals as brutish retards, think again. It was already known that they had bigger brains than us, they could talk, buried their dead long before Homo sapiens, used medicinal plants, made and used painting and jewellery, and that they may have invented...

Just my luck. I received my 23andme DNA spit-kit in the mail today. But I'm currently taking Amox-Clav 875 mgs for a case of strep throat I caught last weekend with 8 and half days to go. :annoyed: Good thing I bothered to look this up before I used the kit. I should probably give it about a...

Here are some videos I found on YouTube, with celebrity DNA test results from various companies. Share some more if you can find them. Fox & Friends hosts Steve Doocy, Brian Kilmeade and Ainsley Earhardt MyHeritage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfCItF3YhvU Brock O'Hurn ( A.K.A. Thor)...

https://blog.insito.me/a-brief-history-of-consumer-genomics-c0b5519b59f2 I thought this was an interesting blog. It gives a brief history of consumer genomics. 2013 was a year that consumer DNA testing rose exponentially. As of this month, 8,000,000 people have been tested between FTDNA, Nat...

https://customercare.23andme.com/hc/en-us/articles/202904600-What-is-the-difference-between-genotyping-and-sequencing- https://www.heli*****/blog/dna-technologies-genotyping-vs-sequencing/ https://www.illumina.com/clinical/illumina_clinical_laboratory/genomics-101/reading-genome.html...