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Red blood cells

Scientists create 鈥榞enetic atlas鈥 of proteins in human blood

06 Jun 2018

An international team of researchers led by scientists at the 探花直播 of Cambridge and MSD has created the first detailed genetic map of human...

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Study finds that genes play a role in empathy

12 Mar 2018

A new study published today suggests that how empathic we are is not just a result of our upbringing and experience but also partly a result of our...

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Scientists link genes to brain anatomy in autism

26 Feb 2018

A team of scientists at the 探花直播 of Cambridge has discovered that specific genes are linked to individual differences in brain anatomy in...

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Ancient genome study identifies traces of indigenous 鈥淭a铆no鈥 in present-day Caribbean populations

19 Feb 2018

A thousand-year-old tooth has provided genetic evidence that the so-called 鈥淭a铆no鈥, the first indigenous Americans to feel the full impact of...

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Common strength 鈥榞enes鈥 identified for first time

12 Jul 2017

Common genetic factors that influence muscle strength in humans have been identified for the first time in a study led by researchers from the...

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Major genetic study identifies 12 new genetic variants for ovarian cancer

27 Mar 2017

A genetic trawl through the DNA of almost 100,000 people, including 17,000 patients with the most common type of ovarian cancer, has identified 12...

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 探花直播shores of Lake Burtnieks in Latvia, near where the human remains were discovered from which ancient DNA was extracted for this study.

Baltic hunter-gatherers adopted farming without influence of mass migration, ancient DNA suggests

02 Feb 2017

Ancient DNA analyses show that 鈥 unlike elsewhere in Europe 鈥 farmers from the Near East did not overtake hunter-gatherer populations in the Baltic...

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Crohn鈥檚 disease risk and prognosis determined by different genes, study finds

09 Jan 2017

Researchers have identified a series of genetic variants that affect the severity of Crohn鈥檚 disease, an inflammatory bowel disease 鈥 but...

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Patients show considerable improvements after treatment for newly-defined movement disorder

19 Dec 2016

DNA sequencing has defined a new genetic disorder that affects movement, enabling patients with dystonia 鈥 a disabling condition that affects...

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A BLUEPRINT for blood cells: Cambridge researchers play leading role in major release of epigenetic studies

17 Nov 2016

Cambridge researchers have played a leading role in several studies released today looking at how variation in and potentially heritable changes to...

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Aubrey Lynch, elder from the Wongatha Aboriginal language group, who participated in the study.

Unprecedented study of Aboriginal Australians points to one shared Out of Africa migration for modern humans

21 Sep 2016

探花直播first significant investigation into the genomics of Aboriginal Australians has uncovered several major findings about early human populations...

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Dani tribesman on his way to his village in the Baliem Valley, Papua.

Ancient 鈥榯race鈥 in Papuan genomes suggests previously unknown expansion out of Africa

21 Sep 2016

Several major studies, published today, concur that virtually all current global human populations stem from a single wave of expansion out of Africa...

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