Analysis of individual human genomes has revealed an unexpected amount of variability in human populations. Copy number variation (CNV) has recently been identified as a major cause of structural ...

Genetic variation among human races can be observed in almost any trait, from the physical and biochemical, to disease resistance. What role do single nucleotide polymorphisms play in this?

a human evolutionary geneticist at the Pasteur Institute in Paris who was not involved in the study. One way to adapt is through DNA sequence variation, which can be the substrate of natural selection ...