Genetics influences longevity by providing inherited characteristics related to health, but daily habits are also essential ...

For researchers on the hunt for the genetic roots of disease, the cost of deep whole-genome sequencing makes it challenging ...

Rare DNA changes are most strongly linked to cognition in early childhood, but the link fades as children age, while common ...

In Mendelian inheritance patterns, you receive one version of a gene, called an allele, from each parent. These alleles can be dominant or recessive. Non-Mendelian genetics don’t completely follow ...

Parents pass their genes down to their kids, with a child inheriting about 50% of their genome from each parent. But there is another kind of genetic code known as the epigenome that can also be ...

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a public health challenge that affects more than 800 million people worldwide. 1 CKD can be caused by a variety of disease processes. Many causes are difficult to ...

Research on Tourette’s indicates that the condition is strongly influenced by inherited genetic factors, with environmental factors also contributing to its development. Tourette syndrome is a ...

A Cornell-led study is challenging a decades-old explanation for how chromosomes exchange genetic material within the ...

In a global breakthrough published in Nature Genetics, researchers have successfully mapped the cells and genes that regulate ...

Walking down a crowded street, a flash of natural crimson hair always grabs immediate attention. It is a striking trait that ...

Forty years ago, a postdoctoral researcher named James McGrath who would go on to spend more than three decades as a clinical geneticist and research scientist at Yale, made a discovery that advanced ...