Based on their study of dozens of Indian populations, a team of researchers from US and India has concluded that most Indian populations have descended from two very different northern and southern ancestral groups.
Using SNP and expression microarrays, a team of researchers from Switzerland, the UK, and the US has uncovered cell type-specific differences in regulatory variant function within three different human cell types.
Using SNP microarrays and gene re-sequencing, a group of researchers from St. Jude Children's Hospital and the National Cancer Institute characterized more than 100 AML tumors, revealing a smaller-than-expected burden of copy number alterations and point mutations.
Researchers from the National Institutes of Health and elsewhere reported online today in Science that a recently acquired retrogene is behind the evolution of short legs in dachshunds and similar dog breeds.