Ancient DNA is turning Europe’s deep past from a sketch into a family album. Instead of guessing who first called the ...

South African participants were sampled across several regions and towns in the Western and Northern Cape Provinces. Sampling was typically conducted at the individual's home, with a local community ...

A team of 91 researchers—including famed geneticist Eske Willerslev at the Lundbeck Foundation GeoGenetics Center, University of Copenhagen—has discovered a Bronze Age genetic divergence connected to ...

The Piasts, Poland's first royal dynasty, are the subject of recent, ground-breaking DNA research that questions conventional wisdom. Genetic analyses show that the male lineage's Y-chromosome ...

A landmark study has uncovered novel ancestry-specific genetic variants linked to multiple sclerosis (MS), offering new insights that could reshape treatment approaches for diverse populations ...

Researchers have found more than 275 million previously unreported genetic variants from data shared by nearly 250,000 volunteers. Half of the data are from participants of non-European ancestry. A ...

New research reveals that a Mediterranean diet can help counteract genetic predisposition to obesity in children, highlighting the diet’s potential for early-life obesity prevention across Europe.

A major global study shows that European-derived Alzheimer’s risk scores can predict disease in many ancestries, but fall short in genetically distinct groups, spotlighting the need for equitable ...