An SNP (single nucleotide polymorphism) is a single chemical unit (base pair) variation in a stretch of DNA, present in more than 1% of the population. A common SNP is estimated to occur 1 in every 1000 base pairs between any two people.
The first 200,000 whole genomes to be sequenced as part of the UK Biobank project have been made widely available to researchers...
A gene variant has been identified that is linked to the development of both Alzheimer's and severe COVID-19, new research has found...
Psychologists have found a genetic variant associated with relationship satisfaction in the first years of marriage...
We get a great deal of mileage out of the terms 'nature' and 'nurture', even though thinking about evolution, human beings, and life using these supposedly distinct and mutually exclusive labels is surely a gross simplification...
Scientists have found that genetic variation in regions of DNA that do not code for proteins, previously characterised as 'junk DNA', may affect a person's risk to develop a form of inherited cancer...
By 2022 the world's consumer genetic testing market is expected to quadruple to £200 million, according to The Guardian. But while the popularity of DIY genetic testing has undergone huge expansion in recent years, doctors and scientists have called for a crackdown on tests offered by consumer genetics companies such as 23andMe and AncestryDNA...
A new study suggests a 'gene drain' linked to social migration in Great Britain, where people with a genetic predisposition for higher educational attainment are more likely to leave former industrial regions and live in wealthier areas...
Two new government publications reveal that plans to charge healthy volunteers for NHS genome sequencing have been scrapped...
Geneticists in the UK have been speaking out against direct-to-consumer DNA testing after concerns over false positive results...
The past few years have seen a huge increase in the identification of rare and common genetic variants associated with disease, advances made possible through ever cheaper and faster genome sequencing technologies...
