Scoping Review Finds Forensic DNA Phenotyping Fails Southeast Asian Populations
A scoping review of 25 studies finds that forensic DNA phenotyping models calibrated on European and East Asian data show ...
Tag: allele frequency
Seven years of genomic change tracked in a wild Anatolian fruit fly population
A seven-year Pool-Seq study of a wild Drosophila melanogaster population near Ankara identified thousands of SNPs with directional allele frequency ...
Kazakh genetic risk scores transfer unevenly, study finds
A study of 470 ethnic Kazakh individuals found that only one of four published polygenic scores for coronary artery disease ...
Treatment-matched minority variants signal delayed culture conversion in rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis
A retrospective study of 229 patients with rifampicin-resistant or multidrug-resistant tuberculosis found that treatment-matched minority resistance variants at allele frequencies ...
Scientists Reassess COVID-19 Genetic Risk Findings After Statistical Challenge
A research team has reanalyzed its COVID-19 genetic association data, confirming the Factor V Leiden finding while downgrading the MTHFR ...
DNA Fingerprinting Gets a Local Upgrade: 24 STR Markers Profiled in India’s Santhal Community
A new study of 210 Santhal individuals in Bihar, India, shows that 24 autosomal STR markers deliver near-certain identification power ...
New Algorithm Simulates Gene Frequency Histories Exactly, Even as Populations Change Size
Researchers have unveiled EWF 2.0, an exact simulation algorithm that generates statistically perfect allele frequency trajectories under the Wright–Fisher diffusion ...
Machine Learning Meets Classical Statistics to Catch the Subtle Fingerprints of Polygenic Adaptation
A new benchmarking study in BMC Genomics shows that a hybrid method combining a One-Class Support Vector Machine with Fisher's ...
Selection Reshapes the Wheat Genome in Just Three Rounds of Breeding
A decade-long analysis of Ohio State's wheat breeding program reveals that just three rounds of field selection shifted allele frequencies ...
Cichlid Fish Reveal Hidden Layer of Immune Gene Diversity in Expression
A new study of Midas and African cichlids shows that MHC class IIB gene expression varies systematically with allele frequency, ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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