Genetic factors can influence a person’s chances of developing certain diseases, but having a higher inherited risk does not ...

A notable study from the University of Exeter reveals that a significant number of people are genetically predisposed to ...

Gene therapy is no longer the future of medicine—it's reality. Treatments that replace, silence or edit genes are already ...

Disease genetics, of human, animal and plant diseases, investigates the consequences of pathogenic (host) genetic variants as the major causes of heritable disorders (monogenic diseases) as well as ...

Abdel Abdellaoui is in the Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam University Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Read the paper: Mapping the genetic landscape ...

Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is an X-linked recessive genetic disorder with progressive proximal weakness as the principal sign. Glucocorticoids and physical therapy are the mainstay of treatment ...

Thousands of children with severe developmental disorders have benefited from more targeted treatments and support with genetic insights from the large-scale Deciphering Developmental Disorders (DDD) ...

Researchers have uncovered shared genetic pathways that link multiple psychiatric disorders. These new findings have the potential to change the way psychiatric disorders are diagnosed and treated, ...

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 ...

The genetic factors underlying anorexia nervosa and binge eating are largely distinct from those that influence body weight. Results of a large genetic study showed that nearly 90% of the genetic ...

A new study by researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign highlights the importance of considering both ...

“Ultimately, we'll help the people we discriminate against if we try to understand more about them; genetics will lead to a world where there is a sympathy for the underdog.”—James D. Watson A recent ...