Fisher's (1918) classic paper on the inheritance of complex traits not only founded the field of quantitative genetics, but also coined the term variance and introduced the powerful statistical method ...

No field of science has changed more, or changed the world more, in the last 50 years than genetics – the study of how our physical and behavioural traits are inherited. These experiments illuminated ...

Clinicians dealing with genetic issues – be they paediatricians, geneticists and increasingly, general practitioners – now rely heavily on information technology to aid their clinical consultations.