More people are turning to genetic counseling to understand their DNA and assess their risk for certain diseases. As part of ...

Someone asked “What is a genetics fact that not a lot of people know?” and people detailed their best bits of info.

“Our study shows how the most important environmental and genetic risk factors can contribute to MS and trigger an autoimmune ...

In Mendelian inheritance patterns, you receive one version of a gene, called an allele, from each parent. These alleles can be dominant or recessive. Non-Mendelian genetics don’t completely follow ...

Two of Opus's seven gene therapy assets are in clinical trials, with additional programs expected to enter the clinic.

Scientists discovered that aging DNA repeats expand at wildly different speeds—and in some people, the consequences can be devastating. A sweeping genetic study drawing on data from more than 900,000 ...

Genetics play a role in low testosterone for some men, but underlying causes vary widely. Many genes influence testosterone ...

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 ...

Genetics is just one of several factors thought to influence personality disorder development. Life experiences, family dynamics, coping mechanisms, and social learning may all be contributing factors ...

Next-generation cancer tests are being developed here in Houston, and the HBJ pulled back the curtain on how one partnership ...