The prevalence and severity of SLE have been found to vary across populations of different
ancestries. This review explores whether these differences can be explained by the genetic …

Abstract Background Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a prevalent multifactorial disorder that
can increase the risk of developing diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and cancer. We …

Biologic therapies for psoriasis can cause paradoxical eczema. The role of genetic factors in
its pathogenesis is unknown. To identify risk variants, we conducted a GWAS of 3,212 …

Autoimmune diseases share a general mechanism of auto-antigens harming tissues. Still.
they are phenotypically diverse, with genetic as well as environmental factors contributing to …

This paper presents one of the first marketing applications of molecular genetics. We report
evidence that salespeople's genetic variants linked to educational attainment predict sales …

Chronic pain is a common problem, with more than one-fifth of adult Americans reporting
pain daily or on most days. It adversely affects the quality of life and imposes substantial …

Honey bee, Apis mellifera, drones are typically haploid, developing from an unfertilized egg,
inheriting only their queen's alleles and none from the many drones she mated with. Thus …

Ants show striking diversity in social organization, raising major questions on the proximate
and ultimate causes of such variation. The shift from one-queen (= monogyne) societies to …

Copy number variation (CNV) is known to influence human traits, having a rich history of
research into common and rare genetic disease, and although CNV is accepted as an …

DNA methylation affects agronomic traits and the environmental adaptability of crops, but the
natural polymorphisms in DNA methylation–related genes and their contributions to …