Diagnostic exome sequencing (DES) is an effective tool for diagnosis in intractable cases where the underlying cause is thought be genetic. It is commonly assumed that patients with a family history ...

Analysis of UK Biobank data has provided evidence of dominance effects in human traits, revealing 183 gene loci associated with phenotypes that exhibit dominant and recessive patterns of inheritance, ...

A new study published in Nature Biotechnology describes a novel approach that alters the rules of chromosome segregation in Caenorhabditis elegans resulting in non-Mendelian inheritance of entire ...

The genotype of an organism is inherited from its parents through the process of reproduction. During sexual reproduction, each parent contributes half of the genetic material to the offspring, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The results of 11 captive matings among nine female and six male descendents of six wild-caught female common garter snakes from polymorphic ...