Biochemical genetic methods are typically utilized to study the large and varied assortment of genetic conditions known as inherited metabolic disorders. These methods include (1) identification and ...

This standardbred filly, born in New Zealand, has unusual coloring due to a new genetic mutation. The genetic change responsible was identified by the Veterinary Genetics Lab at the UC Davis School of ...

Luke is a quantitative geneticist interested in complex trait architecture, and how evolutionary forces such as genetic drift and selection shape that architecture. Starting out in population genetics ...

In a recent blog, I discussed the change in nomenclature for the conditions formerly known as Neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2) and schwannomatosis. This change was based on the results of an ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first test for assessing the risk of opioid use addiction in specific individuals. It is a prescription-use only genetic laboratory test intended ...

Duke University biologists have evolved a complex trait in the laboratory -- using the pressure of selection to induce tobacco hornworms to evolve the dual trait of turning black or green depending on ...