Multiple myeloma (MM) is two-to three-fold more common in African Americans (AAs)
compared to European Americans (EAs). This striking disparity, one of the highest of any …

China, with its large geographic span, possesses rich genetic diversity across vast frontier
regions in addition to the Han Chinese majority. Importantly, demographic events and …

Instead of traditional short tandem repeat (STR) profiling, the genetic genealogy method,
which uses hundreds of thousands of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) spread …

Recent advances in metagenomic technology and computational prediction may
inadvertently weaken an individual's reasonable expectation of privacy. Through cross …

This paper examines a schema for graph-theoretic clustering using node-based resilience
measures. Node-based resilience measures optimize an objective based on a critical set of …

The rapid accumulation of ancient human genomes from various areas and time periods
potentially enables the expansion of studies of biodiversity, biogeography, forensics …

Advancements in DNA methods and biotechnology have enabled forensic scientists to
explore the DNA evidence found as part of a criminal investigation on a much more …

Motivation In clinical trials, individuals are matched using demographic criteria, paired and
then randomly assigned to treatment and control groups to determine a drug's efficacy. A …

Evolutionary biologists, primarily palaeoanthropologists, anatomists and ontogenists,
employ modern geometric morphometrics to quantitatively analyse physical forms (eg, skull …

Context: Since most scientists tend to investigate live biological samples, there is
inadequate data on efficient molecular techniques for the anthropological sciences. In this …