Researchers around the world are studying how the human brain achieves its extraordinary complexity. A team at the Central ...

For example, the canine gene ADD2 was associated with fear of strangers, but in humans was related to depression. A key ...

Thanks to increasingly efficient and affordable gene sequencing technologies, we can now chart our genetic blueprint in unprecedented detail. But what does each gene do? Of the roughly 20,000 genes ...

To get around that, a team of researchers recently did the largest gene/behavior association study within a single dog breed.

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Researchers have used a new human reference genome, which includes many duplicated and repeat sequences left out of the original human genome draft, to identify genes that make the human brain ...