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 ...
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 ...
The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia.
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Your eye color, explained

“From Brown to Evergreen: How Eye Colors Evolved” Your eyes may seem ordinary when you catch your reflection each morn ...
How much of our lifespan is written in our genes, and how much is sitting on our plates? A new analysis suggests that while ...
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 ...
The same pathogen can often elicit very different responses from different people. Scientists sought to understand more about ...
Most cases of immunoglobulin A (IgA) nephropathy are sporadic (or idiopathic), occurring over time for reasons experts don't fully understand. Research suggests that genetic factors are involved in ...