One of the fundamental rules of inheritance states that different alleles (gene copies) of a trait, such as sex, are ...

Haplotypes can hold key information to understand the role of candidate genes in disease etiology. However, standard haplotype analysis has yet been able to fully reveal the information retained by ...

Wheat researchers are pioneering a new technique that promises to improve gene discovery for the globally important crop. Wheat researchers at the John Innes Centre are pioneering a new technique that ...

In In re: Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (“Stanford”), No. 2020-1012 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 11, 2021), the Federal Circuit was presented another opportunity to analyze ...

In an appeal from a final rejection of a pending application, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held that claims directed to methods for determining “haplotype phase” were correctly ...

The most complete haploid-resolved diploid genome sequence has been revealed by scientists based on de novo assembly with NGS technology. The pipeline developed lays the foundation for de novo ...

Evolution, Vol. 54, No. 5 (Oct., 2000), pp. 1795-1808 (14 pages) Segregation distorters are selfish genetic elements that bias Mendelian segregation in their favor. All well-known segregation ...

Long-read DNA sequencing technologies such as the Pacific Biosciences (PacBio) and Oxford Nanopore (ONT) platforms, have demonstrated enhanced detection of genomic variation, including Single ...

Mexican Americans make up 66 percent of the U.S. Hispanic population and, when compared to other ethnic groups, show high rates of heavy drinking and alcohol-related problems. First-of-its-kind ...