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CACNA1A haploinsufficiency leads to a clinically variable phenotype ranging from ataxia to neurodevelopmental syndromes. Hommersom et al. investigate the u

Kun et al. examine the timing of accelerated genomic changes in human evolution by linking human traits to genomic annotations related to distinct evolutionary points. Their findings reveal that skele...

The relatively slow pace of cortical development in humans has long been a topic of investigation. Studies seeking to understand the underlying mechanisms have mostly focused on neurogenetic compariso...

Nature - Earliest modern human genomes constrain timing of Neanderthal admixture

Gene flow from Neanderthals has shaped genetic and phenotypic variation in modern humans. We generated a catalog of Neanderthal ancestry segments in more than 300 genomes spanning the past 50,000 year...