Human genetics Created 2026-10-20 Updated 2026-11-05
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Human genetics studies inherited variation and its biological consequences in humans. It connects pedigrees, molecular analysis and population genetics to questions about ancestry, development and disease. Family segregation can identify an inheritance pattern, while a biological population association identifies correlation with a variant or linked region. Neither automatically supplies the molecular mechanism: functional measurements are needed to establish how a variant changes a process. [ref]
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