Too much linebreeding and prioritizing pedigree can narrow genetic diversity and lead to horse health problems in future generations of foals.

Long before next-generation sequencing technology ushered in today's data-intensive era of human genome information, clinicians have been taking family histories by jotting down pedigrees: hand-drawn ...

A new study from deCODE genetics uses pedigrees and sequence data from 64,806 Icelanders to shed light on the rate and nature of mutations in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and the peculiar dynamics of its ...

On Cayo Santiago, a small island off the coast of Puerto Rico, demographic and genetic data have been collected on a population of rhesus macaques since 1956. Quantifying which individuals share ...