Genetic research does not always produce tidy answers. Sometimes it reveals traces that raise more questions than they settle ...

Despite major advances in genetic testing for breast cancer risk prediction, death rates remain disproportionately high among ...

Scientists analyzing ancient DNA from a 12,000-year-old double burial in southern Italy uncovered genetic evidence of a rare inherited growth disorder in two closely related prehistoric individuals. A ...

The COVID-19 pandemic gave us tremendous perspective on how wildly symptoms and outcomes can vary between patients ...

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Using single-cell epigenomic profiling of immune cells from 110 individuals, researchers show that genetic variation and ...

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 ...

A person’s genes play a far greater role in likely lifespan than previously thought, according to a major new study published Thursday in the journal Science ...

A genetic breakthrough reveals why mental health conditions often occur together. New research identifies five disorder ...

Is Obesity Genetic or Environmental? Get All the Details This article was reviewed by Lynn Marie Morski, MD, JD. Key ...