For more than half a century, many biologists have leaned on the neutral theory of molecular evolution to explain how DNA and ...

ANN ARBOR—For a long time, evolutionary biologists have thought that the genetic mutations that drive the evolution of genes and proteins are largely neutral: they're neither good nor bad, but just ...

Disease progression patterns of patients with more than one disease have recently received increasing attention, as disease co-occurrences can help to elucidate the interaction between the molecular ...

Antagonist Pleiotropy In 1957, George C. Williams proposed the antagonist pleiotropy theory, which proposed that genes that promote reproduction might be selected for even if they induce a ...

Extensive Functional Pleiotropy of REVOLUTA Substantiated through Forward Genetics Ilga Porth, Jaroslav Klápště, Athena D. McKown, Jonathan La Mantia, Richard C. Hamelin, Oleksandr Skyba, Faride Unda, ...

A University of Michigan-led study based on a review of genetic and health information from more than 276,000 people finds strong support for a decades-old evolutionary theory that sought to explain ...