Basic concepts in population genetics, including nucleotide diversity, random genetic drift, effective population size, coalescent theory, time to common ancestor, site frequency spectrum, linkage ...

EvolGenius is a two-locus population genetics simulation written for use in undergraduate courses. Often, we use simulations without really thinking about how they recreate a process. But ...

also known as the process of evolution. Genetic variation is usually expressed as a relative frequency, which means a proportion of the total population under study. In other words, a relative ...

Researchers at the University of Copenhagen have found that the critically endangered regent honeyeater faces hidden genetic ...

The founder effect is an extreme example of "genetic drift." Genes occurring at a certain frequency in the larger population will occur at a different frequency -- more or less often -- in a ...

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe.

Some of the genes from Population B, "particularly those related to brain function and neural processing, may have played a crucial role in human evolution," study co-author Trevor Cousins, a ...

An online portal streamlines the testing process at UCLA Health ... M.D., gynecologic oncologist and director of Cancer Population Genetics at the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center ...

"This population would later contribute ... they may have been less compatible with the majority genetic background. This hints at a process known as purifying selection, where natural selection ...