The association between parents' BMI and their children's BMI during childhood may be primarily due to genetic inheritance ...

But selecting a partner like ourselves may not be solely determined by personal choice. A new study soon to be published in Psychological Science suggests that assortative mating can be explained ...

Lamia Wahba is studying how information outside the genetic code can pass between generations and what that means for evolution and disease. When we think about genetic inheritance, we usually leap to ...

A new study has provided new insights into the the genetic overlap among some psychiatric disorders, and can help explain why it’s not uncommon for several of these disorders to arise in the same ...

From dwarfism to overgrowth, scientists unravel the complex genetic blueprint that determines how tall—or short—we become. Review: The genetic basis of human height. Image Credit: XiXinXing / ...