Genomic imprinting of natural selection revealed
Thursday, February 16, 2012 - 12:30
in Biology & Nature
Discovering the relation between genetic variation and observable characteristics of individuals belonging to a species, such as a person's height or the manifestation of a hereditary disease is one of today's challenges in biology. Until now only a small part of the variation of these traits - which biologists name phenotypes - were attributed to genetic variations.