Background The educational attainment of parents, particularly mothers, has been
associated with lower levels of child mortality, yet there is no consensus on the magnitude of …

Long runs of homozygosity (ROH) arise when identical haplotypes are inherited from each
parent and thus a long tract of genotypes is homozygous. Cousin marriage or inbreeding …

We conduct a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of educational attainment (EA) in a
sample of~ 3 million individuals and identify 3,952 approximately uncorrelated genome …

Elevated serum urate levels cause gout and correlate with cardiometabolic diseases via
poorly understood mechanisms. We performed a trans-ancestry genome-wide association …

Innovation is often assumed to be the work of a talented few, whose products are passed on
to the masses. Here, we argue that innovations are instead an emergent property of our …

The presence of general intelligence poses a major evolutionary puzzle, which has led to
increased interest in its presence in nonhuman animals. The aim of this review is to critically …

Recent studies in human populations and mouse models reveal notable congruences in gut
microbial taxa whose abundances are partly regulated by host genotype. Host genes …

The Metabolic Syndrome in Men (METSIM) study is a population-based study including
10,197 Finnish men examined in 2005–2010. The aim of the study is to investigate …

Inbreeding depression is of major concern for the conservation of threatened species, and
inbreeding avoidance is thought to be a key driver in the evolution of mating systems …

The Western Australian Pregnancy Cohort (Raine) Study (www. rainestudy. org. au) was
established 1989-1991 with the then stated purpose: to develop a large cohort of Western …