Genetic analyses in baker's yeast now reveal that these large-scale expansions are controlled by genes that have been implicated in a process for repairing DNA breaks, leading the researchers to ...

image: A study led by Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has identified a genetic error that weakens the aorta, placing patients with this and ...

Scientists have uncovered a critical genetic mutation in some patients with myelodysplastic syndromes — a group of blood cancers that can progress to a fatal form of leukemia. The research team at ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In an observational analysis, Choquet and colleagues assessed 54,755 non-Hispanic white individuals (58% women) ...

Exposure to mutagens, or mutation-causing agents, can not only bring about changes in DNA but also appear to induce errors when genes are transcribed to make proteins, which may be an important factor ...

The Health Ministry’s discovery of a malfunction in test kits used to detect a genetic mutation especially common among Ashkenazi Jews has reportedly led to the formation of a special review committee ...

A long-term study of children with a complex heart condition called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) found that the risk of death or need for immediate listing for heart transplantation was greatest ...

Hereditary hemochromatosis (HH) is caused by genetic mutations that lead to the abnormal accumulation of iron in different organs such as the heart, liver, or ...