Monthly Archives: May 2024

This topic is among the most clear-cut examples of “gene-environment interactions” topics…!! During evolution, when vertebrates first left the water and ventured onto land, they encountered a visual world that was radically different from that of their aquatic ancestors. In … Continue reading →

For gene-environment interactions, the environmental “signal” in this story represents the urinary “total nicotine equivalents”, a quantitative assay for cigarettes actually smoked (which is more reliable than the patient’s estimate of their smoking history). The genetic “response” in this story … Continue reading →

s described many times in these GEITP email blogs — to discover a gene or genetic loci that is/are correlated with a simple or complex trait (phenotype) of your choosing, genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have been commonly used as a … Continue reading →

This is a layman’s description of a very recent paper published in Nature. And, as these articles usually do, they don’t provide enough scientific details for scientists to judge for themselves… But this brief overview always sounds very exciting, like … Continue reading →