About 70% of barley is used for animal feed, but it is also used in beer, whiskey, and food production, with over 170 million tons grown each year. Findings, such as the late-flowering gene mutation, ...

In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* pre-print server, researchers reported the association of a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) rs9984273 in the interferon-alpha/beta receptor (IFNAR2) gene ...

Research from UChicago dissects how a single genetic switch helps butterflies mimic wing patterns of other species to protect ...

In this issue, Gryshchenko et al 1 report that a known single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in the promoter region of MDM2 is associated with treatment-free and overall survival in chronic lymphocytic ...

1982 The Human Polymorphism Study Center, the first academic institution to propose the systematic study of polymorphisms, is founded in Paris. Its primary objective: to make an inventory of all ...

Oncotarget published "The presence of polymorphisms in genes controlling neurotransmitter metabolism and disease prognosis in patients with prostate cancer: a possible link with schizophrenia" ...

Background: Metformin is the drug of first choice in people newly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. Most patients respond to metformin monotherapy, but many others remain uncontrolled even at maximal ...

Association of biomarkers of insulin resistance and inflammation with skeletal muscle index (SMI) in stage IV non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2016 ASCO ...

Environmental factors, such as those from food allergens, can modulate IgE-driven hypersensitivity related to the genetics of allergy. Researchers from the Korea National Institute of Health aimed to ...

Université de Strasbourg and partners report that adding structural variants and small insertion–deletion mutations to single ...