Many of the ancient southern Africans, including those who lived between about 10,200 and 1,400 years ago, "fall outside the ...

An ancient, shared set of human-specific genes underwent changes in a geographically isolated population after around 300,000 years ago, scientists say.

In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new ...

Human gene maps contain major blind spots because they were built largely from the DNA sequences of people with European ...

EVE combines evolutionary insights with human population data to identify damaging genetic mutations, improving variant ...

The fossil and genetic evidence agree that modern humans originated in Africa. The most genetically diverse human populations ...

The first complete draft of the human genome was published back in 2003. Since then, researchers have worked both to improve the accuracy of human genetic data, and to expand its diversity, looking at ...

Research into parental support needs is informing Cambridge Children's Hospital's commitment to provide a "whole family" ...

At the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) 2025 industry session on 16th October, Oxford Nanopore Technologies will share its latest developments in enabling translational and clinical human ...

The Leena Peltonen Prize for Excellence in Human Genetics was established in winter 2010 to recognize scientists who are in the early phases of their independent careers. The second award ceremony ...