Assessing the patterns of linkage disequilibrium (LD) has become an important issue in both
evolutionary biology and medical genetics since the rapid accumulation of densely spaced …

Research on animal personality can be approached from both a phenotypic and a genetic
perspective. While using a phenotypic approach one can measure present selection on …

The stress hormone–regulating hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis has been
implicated in the causality as well as the treatment of depression. To investigate a possible …

Background and Purpose—Recent evidence has implicated the genes for 5-lipoxygenase
activating protein (ALOX5AP) and phosphodiesterase 4D (PDE4D) as susceptibility genes …

Many analysts argue colorblindness as the reigning ideological buttress of a historically
distinct form of structural white supremacy, color-blind racism. In contrast to slavery and legal …

Highlights•The GRC's absence from the soma might mitigate germline-soma conflict.•Sex-
specific copy number differences highlight the GRC's distorted transmission.•A …

Genetic variability in the promoter and 3′ region of the SNCA gene coding α‐synuclein
modulates the risk to develop sporadic Parkinson's disease (PD). Whether this is mediated …

Polymorphisms in several neurotransmitter-associated genes have been associated with
variation in human personality traits. Among the more promising of such associations is that …

Abstract α‐Synuclein is considered to play an important role in the pathogenesis of both the
rare familial and the common sporadic forms of Parkinson's disease. Previous reports …

The associations of the adiponectin (APM1) gene with parameters of the metabolic
syndrome are inconsistent. We performed a systematic investigation based on fine-mapped …