The Phoenicians were the dominant traders in the Mediterranean Sea two thousand to three
thousand years ago and expanded from their homeland in the Levant to establish colonies …

We sequenced the genomes of a ∼7,000-year-old farmer from Germany and eight ∼8,000-year-old
hunter-gatherers from Luxembourg and Sweden. We analysed these and other …

Genes involved in distinct diabetes types suggest shared disease mechanisms. Here we show
that One Cut Homeobox 1 (ONECUT1) mutations cause monogenic recessive syndromic …

The nonrecombining portion of the human Y chromosome has proven to be a valuable tool
for the study of population history. The maintenance of extended haplotypes characteristic of …

The discovery of genetic loci associated with complex diseases has outpaced the elucidation
of mechanisms of disease pathogenesis. Here we conducted a genome-wide association …

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in coronary artery disease (CAD) had identified
66 loci at'genome-wide significance'(P< 5× 10− 8) at the time of this analysis, but a much …

Background The nature and underlying mechanisms of an inverse association between
adult height and the risk of coronary artery disease (CAD) are unclear. Methods We used a …

Lebanon is an eastern Mediterranean country inhabited by approximately four million people
with a wide variety of ethnicities and religions, including Muslim, Christian, and Druze. In …

North African populations are distinct from sub-Saharan Africans based on cultural, linguistic,
and phenotypic attributes; however, the time and the extent of genetic divergence between …

We analyzed 40 single nucleotide polymorphism and 19 short tandem repeat Y-chromosomal
markers in a large sample of 1,525 indigenous individuals from 14 populations in the …