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Scientists know that genes can predispose people to Alzheimer's disease. But as described in nearly three dozen scientific papers, Snowdon's study has shown, among other things, that a history of stroke and head trauma can boost your chances of coming down with debilitating symptoms of Alzheimer's later...
She was also among the first to introduce cloned genes into the mouse germline to study their properties.
So what? Well, it complicates matters, suggesting that gradual cultural exchange has played a quiet but constant role in human history - and that invasions aren't necessarily all they have been cracked up to be. Thirty years ago the dominant theory was that the precursor of the Indo-European languages...
The new research is almost certain - like the genome itself - to suggest a more nuanced and complicated idea of what it means to be a human being. We are all more similar than racists or nationalists like to think: the genetic variance throughout the 6 billion humans on earth amounts...
Plowing through church records and birth rolls will only get you so far in reconstructing your family tree. For the really deep stuff, you must look to your genes, and Bryan Sykes, professor of human genetics at the University of Oxford, is there to help you. His company, Oxford Ancestors...