Three new papers (Kilpinen et al., 2013; McVickers et al., 2013; Kasowski et al., 2013) published earlier this month in Science all address the effects on human patterns of gene expression and other phenotypes of 1) genetic variation in non-protein coding regions of...
There is probably no more canonical example of the relevance of evolutionary genetics to clinical medicine than sickle cell disease. The relevance of the sickle allele, in heterozygous form, at the beta-globin locus for resistance to falciparum malaria was published...
