A new international study challenges the century‑old dominance of Mendelian genetics, arguing that most traits arise from ...

Recent studies are challenging the long-dominant Mendelian view of inheritance, highlighting the need to incorporate polygenic and quantitative models into genetics research and education. Evidence ...

Gregor Mendel, the Moravian monk, was indeed 'decades ahead of his time and truly deserves the title of 'founder of genetics.'' So concludes an international team of scientists as the 200th birthday ...

IN 1865, an Austrian monk called Gregor Mendel, working to understand hybridisation, uncovered exquisitely simple and reliable patterns of inheritance in varieties of garden pea. In 1900, the patterns ...

The iconic pea plant experiments of Gregor Mendel laid the foundations for the science of genetics. Now 160 years on, an international research collaboration has used genomics, bioinformatics and ...

IN the space of some 250 pages of well-produced matter, Prof. Gates has devoted himself to an examination of the known facts of human inheritance, with special reference to Mendelian inheritance.