Shark feeding habits are helping scientists identify marks on human bones found in the ocean. By analyzing shark scavenging behavior, the University of Florida's C.A. Pound Human Identification ...

Recent work showing that common phenotypically associated SNPs are enriched for expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs) 1,2,3,4,5,6 suggests that they might act by altering gene regulatory regions.

Enhancers and transcription factor binding sites that control cell-specific transcription in higher eukaryotes can be found up to hundreds of kilobases from the promoters that they control, making ...