Throughout the course of human evolution, there have been plenty of firsts. Small changes in our genetic code have laid the groundwork for our bipedal gait, our large brains, and our ability to speak complex languages.
There are countless genes throughout the human genome that distinguish us from our evolutionary relatives; now scientists have [...]

Tags: Crohn's disease, human evolution, IRGM

Just about every week a new genome-wide association study links common variations in the genome to some disease. But only rarely do the authors of these studies have more than a guess of why these SNPs are associated with a particular condition.
On Sunday in the online edition of Nature Genetics, researchers presented results that [...]

Tags: Crohn's disease, deletion, IRGM, Nature Genetics