Genetics and Genomics

Genetics and Genomics

eLife reviews research including the genetic basis of health and disease, epigenetics, genomics, medical genetics, genetic epidemiology, and population genetics. Learn more about what we review and sign up for the latest research.
Illustration by Davide Bonazzi

Latest articles

    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Neuroscience

    The neuron-specific IIS/FOXO transcriptome in aged animals reveals regulatory mechanisms of cognitive aging

    Yifei Weng, Shiyi Zhou ... Coleen T Murphy
    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.
    1. Genetics and Genomics

    Discovering non-additive heritability using additive GWAS summary statistics

    Samuel Pattillo Smith, Gregory Darnell ... Lorin Crawford
    Computational analysis reveals that additive summary statistics from genome-wide association studies can provide evidence of non-additive heritability in complex traits.
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Copy number variation and population-specific immune genes in the model vertebrate zebrafish

    Yannick Schäfer, Katja Palitzsch ... Jaanus Suurväli
    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.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Caspar determines primordial germ cell identity in Drosophila melanogaster

    Subhradip Das, Sushmitha Hegde ... Girish S Ratnaparkhi