Senckenberg-Leibniz Institution for Biodiversity and Earth System Research, Senckenberganlage, Frankfurt, Germany Ariadna E. Morales, Evgeny V. Leushkin, Alexander Ben Hamadou, Alejandro Gonzales-Irribarren, Carola Greve, Leon Hilgers, Dimitrios-Georgios Kontopoulos, Shenglin Liu, Yury V. Malovichko, Tilman Schell & Michael Hiller University of Montpellier–CNRS–IRD, ISEM, Montpellier, France Ariadna E. Morales & Sebastien J. Puechmaille Tree of Life, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK Yan Liang (梁妍), Eugene W. Myers, Mark Blaxter, Paul Davis, Matthieu Muffato, Guoying
The human genome is made up of roughly 3 billion bases, or letters, of DNA.Credit: Yuichiro Chino/Getty The human genome is an easy place to get lost. Only 2% of its 3 billion letters encode proteins and the rest is diabolically hard to decipher. An AI-generated ‘atlas’ of the human genome unveiled1 today by Google
On a Tuesday in mid-April, the UK Biobank — one of the largest and most comprehensive health-tracking studies in the world — received a troubling e-mail from an anonymous researcher. The sender had discovered what appeared to be sensitive information from hundreds of thousands of the study’s participants for sale on Xianyu, an e-commerce website
Personality plays into how people think, feel, behave and interact with their environment.Credit: PeopleImages/Getty A study of more than one million people has uncovered around 1,200 genetic variants that are associated with personality traits, and is by far the largest effort of its kind. The researchers found that common genetic variants account for a small
Ethics The work reported on TwinsUK samples was carried out with informed consent under TwinsUK BioBank ethics, approved by the North West–Liverpool Central Research Ethics Committee (REC reference 19/NW/0187), IRAS ID 258513 and earlier approvals granted to TwinsUK by the St Thomas’ Hospital Research Ethics Committee, later the London–Westminster Research Ethics Committee (REC reference EC04/015).
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