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  • A large genome-wide association study of more than 5 million individuals reveals that 12,111 single-nucleotide polymorphisms account for nearly all the heritability of height attributable to common genetic variants.

    • Loïc Yengo
    • Sailaja Vedantam
    • Joel N. Hirschhorn
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature
    Volume: 610, P: 704-712

  • Similarities in cancers can be studied to interrogate their etiology. Here, the authors use genome-wide association study summary statistics from six cancer types based on 296,215 cases and 301,319 controls of European ancestry, showing that solid tumours arising from different tissues share a degree of common germline genetic basis.

    • Xia Jiang
    • Hilary K. Finucane
    • Sara Lindström
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 10, P: 1-23

  • Changes in the human geography of Rapa Nui, Easter Island, Chile, in the 16th and 17th centuries and the decline in monument construction coincided with a sustained decrease in annual precipitation of approximately 600–800 millimeters, according to hydrogen isotope data from leaf waxes in sediments.

    • Redmond Stein
    • Lorelei Curtin
    • William J. D’Andrea
    ResearchOpen Access
    Communications Earth & Environment
    Volume: 6, P: 1-8

  • Humans may have settled the Faroe Islands and begun using the land for livestock grazing as early as 500 CE, around 300 years earlier than previously believed, according to sedimentary DNA and molecular fecal biomarkers from a lake sediment core.

    • Lorelei Curtin
    • William J. D’Andrea
    • Jostein Bakke
    ResearchOpen Access
    Communications Earth & Environment
    Volume: 2, P: 1-7