Genome-wide association (GWA) studies have identified a large number of SNPs
associated with disease phenotypes. As most GWA studies have been performed in …

This article reviews recent developments in Bayesian algorithms that explicitly include
geographical information in the inference of population structure. Current models …

The big economic story of our times is not the Great Recession. It is how China and India
began to embrace neoliberal ideas of economics and attributed a sense of dignity and …

Contemporary Jews comprise an aggregate of ethno-religious communities whose
worldwide members identify with each other through various shared religious, historical and …

Quantifying patterns of population structure in Africans and African Americans illuminates
the history of human populations and is critical for undertaking medical genomic studies on …

Background The ability of adult humans to digest the milk sugar lactose-lactase persistence-
is a dominant Mendelian trait that has been a subject of extensive genetic, medical and …

The genetic structure of the indigenous hunter-gatherer peoples of southern Africa, the
oldest known lineage of modern human, is important for understanding human diversity …

Increasing public interest in direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic ancestry testing has been
accompanied by growing concern about issues ranging from the personal and societal …

Recent multi-dimensional approaches to the study of complex disease have revealed
powerful insights into how genetic and epigenetic factors may underlie their …

The evidence for a human genetic component in susceptibility to tuberculosis (TB) is
incontrovertible. Quite apart from studies of rare disease events illustrating the importance of …