Wizard Genomics?
No this entry is not about the latest developements in reducing the cost of genomic sequencing but about a letter that appeared in the latest issue of Nature ... Harry Potter and the recessive allele.

According to the authors:

Wizards or witches can be of any race, and may be the offspring of a wizard and a witch, the offspring of two muggles ('muggle-born'), or of mixed ancestry ('half-blood').

This suggests that wizarding ability is inherited in a mendelian fashion, with the wizard allele (W) being recessive to the muggle allele (M).

I wonder if these guys could get a grant from the budget-slashed NIH?