In this Journal Club, Minoli Perera reflects on a 2005 sequencing study by Cohen et al., who discovered two common loss-of-function mutations with large effects on plasma cholesterol levels thanks ...

Plant genetics deals with heredity in plants, specifically mechanisms of hereditary transmission and variation of inherited characteristics. Plant genetics differs from animal genetics in a number ...

Robert Plomin is a pioneer of modern behaviour genetics and Blueprint is unabashedly an exercise in cheerleading for the field. His enthusiasm can be contagious and his exposition of the surprising ...

And she turned to what she knew and loved the most and founded the Nature + Nurture bookstore in downtown Salem. “This whole time my kids and I were still reading together and doing these things, and ...

Nurture is more influential than nature when it comes to number of major diseases and ... as shaped by our upbringing and choices. “Genetics can load the dice, but it is up to us how we play our hand.