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In the News . . .

• Why billionaires have more sons -- BBCfuture (17 October 2016)
  
  
• Taste for high-fat food 'in our genes' -- BBCNews (05 October 2016)
  
  
• Paleo-Diet Debates Evolve Into Something Bigger -- Washington Post (07 March 2016)
  
  
• Here's How Genetics Helped Crack the History of Human Migration -- Phys.org (14 January 2016)
  
  
• ‘Grandparent Genes’ Discovered by Scientists -- Telegraph (30 November 2015)
  
  
• Is Our Desire for Genetic Answers Cultural Rather Than Scientific? -- Guardian (27 August 2015)
  
  
• Why having 'blonde' genes will not make you ditzy -- Telegraph (02 June 2014)
  
  
• Your Genome Is a Post-Apocalyptic Wasteland -- Pacific Standard (01 October 2013)
  
  
• Human Genome Sequencing: The Real Ethical Dilemmas -- Guardian (09 September 2013)
  
  
• Are You Carrying the Redhead Gene? -- Discovery News (28 January 2013)
  
  
• Recapturing the heritage of the Khoe-San -- Past Horizons (21 September 2012)
  
  
• Khoe-San Peoples Diverged Before 'Out-Of-Africa' Migration of Modern Humans -- ScienceDaily (20 September 2012)
  
  
• Genetic Mutation May Have Allowed Early Humans to Migrate Throughout Africa -- ScienceDaily (19 September 2012)
  
  
• Adaptive Evolution of the FADS Gene Cluster within Africa -- PLoS ONE (19 September 2012)
  
  
• Family Trees: Tracing the World's Ancestor -- BBC News (21 August 2012)
  
  
• Remaking History: A New Take On How Evolution Has Shaped Modern Europeans -- ScienceDaily (14 August 2012)
  
  
• Unraveling The Genetic Code That Makes Us Human -- NPR (23 July 1012)
  
  
• The Only Humans Left on Earth -- New Scientist (14 March 2012)
  
  
• Male Y Chromosome Extinction Theory Challenged -- BBC News (22 February 2012)

• ALFRED: The Allele FREquency Database -- Kenneth K Kidd, Yale University
  
  
• Basic Genetics related glossaries -- babylon
  
  
• basic principles -- Dennis O'Neil (tutorial)
  
  
• Bench to Blackboard -- BioEd Online, Baylor College of Medicine
  
  
• biological basis of heredity -- Dennis O'Neil (tutorial) Human Genome
  
  
• Breathing Life Into an Extinct Ethnicity -- Nature (14 October 2011)
  
  
• Council for Responsible Genetics
  
  
• Evolution's Footprints in Human Genome Precisely Tracked Using New Approach -- ScienceDaily (08 January 2010-01)
  
  
• Exploring Genes & Genetic Disorders
  
  
• FDA -- U.S. Food and Drug Administration
  • A to Z Subject Index
  • Food
    • Biotechnology
      
      
• Genes, Health and Society -- BioEd Online
  
  
• Genes Play Major Role in Primate Social Behavior, Study Finds -- New York Times (19 December 2011)
  
  
• Genetics: The Symphony of Life -- University of Michigan
  
  
• Genetics & Heredity -- BioSciEdNet (BEN)
  
  
• Gene You: Genetics and Inheritance -- BioEd Online, Baylor College of Medicine
  
  
• Genomics in Education -- Genome Sequencing Center, Washington University
  
  
• Good Samaritans Influenced by Genes -- Telegraph (09 February 2011)
  
  
• Genetics -- nature.com
  
  
• Genes -- Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
  
  
• Human Genome Project Education Resources
  
  
• The Human Genome Project Was Just the Starting Point -- Guardian (21 April 2011)
  
  
• Human Male: Still A Work In Progress -- Jon Hamilton, npr (13 January 2010)
  
  
• Human Mutation Rate Slower Than Thought -- ScienceNews (13 June 2011)
  
  
• Is Being a Goody Two-Shoes in Your Genes? -- NewScientist (10 November 2010)
  
  
• "Jumping Genes" Make Each Person Unique: Study -- Reuters (24 June 2010)
  
  
• The Human Phenome Project -- New York Times (08 June 2010) [Francis Galton]
  
  
• Introduction to Genetics -- GlaxoSmithKline
  
  
• Learn.Genetics -- Genetic Science Learning Center, University of Utah
  
  
• 'Liberal Gene' Discovered by Scientists -- Telegraph (28 October 2010)
  
  
• Mate Selection More Biologically Determined in Some Human Populations -- EurekAlert (11 September 2010)
  
  
• Mendelian Genetics -- Science at a Distance, John Blamire
  
  
• National Center for Biotechnology Information
  • All Resources (A-Z)
  • DNA & RNA
  • Genes & Expression
  • Genomes & Maps
  • Taxonomy
  • Variation
    
    
• Primer on Molecular Genetics -- Denise Casey, Department of Energy
  
  
• Primer on Probability -- Robert Merritt, Smith College
  
  
• Public Library of Science
  • Genetics
  • Biology
    
    
• The Science of Picky Eaters -- NOVA scienceNOW (21 July 2009)
  
  
• Silencing Genomes -- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
  
  
• Twitty, Michael W. The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South. NY: HarperCollins, 2017.




• Understanding Genetics -- San Jose Tech Museum of Innovation
  
  
• We're All Mutants: The Average Human Has 60 New Genetic Mutations -- Live Science (16 June 2011)
  
  
• Where Does the Myth of a Gene for Things Like Intelligence Come From? -- Guardian (09 September 2010)
  
  
• Why Do People 'Play the Longshot' and Buy Insurance? It's in Our Genes -- EurekAlert (11 January 2010)

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