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Genetics is the study of how heritable traits are transmitted from parents to offspring. Humans have long observed that traits tend to be similar in families. It wasn’t until the mid-nineteenth ...

The promise of pharmacogenetics, the study of the role of inheritance in the individual variation in drug response, lies in its potential to identify the right drug and dose for each patient. Even ...

New research explains how certain traits can pass down from one generation to the next – at least in plants – without following the accepted rules of genetics. New research explains how certain traits ...

Genetics is fiendishly complex. We know this from decades of molecular biology, from the resulting studies on the sequencing and analysis of genomes and from our increasing knowledge of how genes ...

In the last half-century, population genetics has seen many exciting advances. As Brian and Deborah Charlesworth discuss in this Special Issue, fundamental questions about the nature and extent of ...