Population genetics applies mathematical and statistical approaches to gene‐frequency changes over time and space, uniting genetics, evolutionary biology and anthropology to illuminate human origins, ...

Population geneticist Sohini Ramachandran uses computational approaches and develops new techniques to explore human genetic variation and diversity.

University of Michigan researchers have developed a statistical method that can be used for such wide-ranging applications as tracing your ancestry, modeling disease spread and studying how animals ...

The influence of an unknown population and its impact on intelligence was discovered in our DNA by researchers using a new method they developed. The story of human evolution just took a dramatic turn ...

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. Using advanced analysis based ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral population in Africa. By analyzing genetic data from diverse modern African ...

Henry T. Greely, Ethical Issues in Human Population Genetics, in Human Population Genetics: Evolution and Variation, Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza and Marcus Feldman eds., London: Henry Stewart Talks, ...

A leading cardiovascular geneticist known for using human genetics and large population studies will be recognized by the American Heart Association at its annual Scientific Sessions in November.

Human beings are awesome. And the closer you look at them, the more intriguing surprises you’re bound to find. What’s especially interesting are our genes and how they’re expressed. You might not even ...

Researchers have created a way to see your family tree as a movie rather than a still portrait by tracing where your ancestors moved across the globe over time. The statistical method can also be used ...