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Genetics, explained from the papers

Every post is built on the peer-reviewed study behind a GenePlaza app — with the effect sizes, the limitations, and what the result cannot tell you.

55posts
30English
14Français
11Nederlands

English — 30 posts

Iceland Could Identify Almost Every Woman at High Risk of Breast Cancer. It Doesn't
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A DNA Test Can Predict 11% of How Far You Went in School. The Other 89% Is the Interesting Part
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Cheddar Man Had Dark Skin and Blue Eyes. A Consumer DNA Test Helped Prove It
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Around 2500 BC, Someone Arrived in Britain and Replaced 90% of Its Gene Pool
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4,500 Children Gave a Blood Sample at Nine. What It Predicted at Eighteen
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Your Ancestry Result Changed and Nobody Edited Your DNA
appapp 58
GenePlaza in the Press
announcement
Welcome to FamilyTreeDNA and MyHeritage users
announcement
Why Some People Sleep Fine After an Espresso: The CYP1A2 Story
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Children and Their Mothers Had the Same Bitter-Taste Gene. Only the Children Wanted More Sugar
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Researchers Scanned 249,796 People for Obesity Genes. What They Found Explains About 1.5% of It
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The Gene That Makes Cilantro Taste Like Soap Explains Almost None of It
appapp 56
24% of Under-30s Are Morning People. 63% of Over-60s Are. Nobody's Genome Changed
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Most People Carrying the Ankylosing Spondylitis Gene Never Develop It
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Ibuprofen Is Cleared by an Enzyme That Roughly a Third of People Carry a Slower Version Of
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The Professional Body for Medical Genetics Recommends Against MTHFR Testing. Here's Why That Matters
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Your Ancestors Were Replaced More Often Than You Think. Here Is the Whole Sequence
science
In Copper Age Iberia, Local Y-Chromosome Lineages Were Almost Entirely Replaced. Female Lineages Were Not
science
The People of Imperial Rome Looked Genetically Like the Eastern Mediterranean, Not Like Italy
science
Farming Didn't Spread Across Europe. Farmers Did
science
Two Completely Different Histories Can Produce the Same Ancestry Bar Chart
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The Migration That Brought Celtic Languages to Britain May Have Happened 500 Years Before the Iron Age
science
When Rome Fell, the Genetics of Italy Changed Direction Again
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Around 3000 BC, Herders From the Steppe Moved Into Europe and Rewrote Its Ancestry
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A 35,000-Year-Old Lineage Vanished From Europe, Then Came Back 15,000 Years Later
science
Plot Europeans by Their DNA and You Get a Map of Europe
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Half the World Is Projected to Be Short-Sighted by 2050. The Genes Did Not Change
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The Only Gene Linked to Neuroticism in 63,661 People Failed to Replicate
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Your 0.5% Is Probably Not an Ancestor
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In 1994, Two Geneticists Explained How You Could Discover a Gene for Using Chopsticks
science

Français — 14 posts

Nederlands — 11 posts