For more than a century, heredity has been framed through the tidy logic of Mendel’s pea plants: traits pass from parent to ...

A major mouse study found that some inherited traits are passed down through epigenetic changes that break the classic rules ...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University and Texas A&M University have documented at least 522 autosomal sites where DNA ...

Fifteen years after the Fukushima disaster, escaped domestic pigs interbred with native wild boar, revealing an unusual ...

The blueprint of who we are begins with the genes passed down from our parents. While these inherited traits give us our eye color and height, they can also contain instructions that increase our risk ...

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 ...

Jaime Murillo, MD, explores genetic inheritance patterns of Lp(a) from childhood to adulthood, highlighting stability, factors affecting measurement, and awareness challenges among those in the health ...

Touching Base is the dynamic podcast series from the editors of GEN. Each episode features a rotating case of senior editors—including John Sterling, Kevin Davies, Julianna LeMieux, Alex Phillippidis, ...

Although schwannomatosis is a genetic condition, the inheritance patterns for this disorder are complex and much less clear than for both NF1 and NF2. Some cases of schwannomatosis are familial, with ...

The medical literature overwhelmingly characterizes the Druze as what researchers call a “genetic isolate,” meaning that ...