When you start the game, you'll find an incomplete family tree of male relatives. We offer simulated DNA sequences from the Y chromosomes of 10 fictitious individuals. These men have a common ...

Researchers have taken a major step towards mapping the entirety of genetic ... "We have basically built a huge family tree, a genealogy for all of humanity that models as exactly as we can ...

The technique can identify the founding mutations from which a tumor evolved, and uses computer software to map the cancer's family tree. The findings could be used to identify the key mutations ...

It is one thing to work out your own family tree. It is another to create one for all of humanity. But biologists have made a start: in February, Gil McVean at the University of Oxford and his ...