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Changes in the amount and timing of gene expression during early development contribute to evolutionary divergence and life-history changes, even within a species.

Epigenetic signature of maternal smoking contributes to smaller body size and lower birth weight in newborns of European and South Asian ancestry.

Whole-transcriptomic profiling of circulating small extracellular vesicle RNA facilitates the detection of T1a stage colorectal cancer and precancerous advanced adenoma.

IQCH is required for acrosome and axoneme development during spermatogenesis in humans and mice.

ROH-DICE is an efficient method for detecting ROH clusters in biobank data, enabling the study of population history of large cohorts, and providing a new genome-wide association analysis approach for finding disease-causing loci with multi-marker recessive effects.

Genetic and biochemical characterization reveals how a single amino acid change in the chromodomain of the HP1 protein Rhino enables its specific interaction with the guidance factor Kipferl.

Neuron-specific sequencing of aged wild-type, daf-2, and daf-16;daf-2 mutants revealed transcriptomic changes with age, and in longevity mutants, putative neuroprotective genes are upregulated, which are required for prolonged cognitive functions.

Computational analysis reveals that additive summary statistics from genome-wide association studies can provide evidence of non-additive heritability in complex traits.

As a result of frequent gene duplication and haplotypic variation, a family of immune genes in the model vertebrate zebrafish has thousands of gene copies that are population- or individual-specific.