Research links variations in the gene GRIN2A to a higher risk of developing schizophrenia and other forms of mental illness.

A sperm donor with a rare genetic mutation linked to an increased risk of developing cancer fathered at least 197 children across Europe, some of whom have already died from the disease, according to ...

In a breakthrough study, scientists have discovered that a variant in one gene, GRIN2A, can directly cause mental illness – ...

Childhood psychosis risk appears to increase significantly among carriers of this gene variant. In A Nutshell First ...

Changes to just one gene, called GRIN2A, have now been tied to psychiatric symptoms, including early-onset schizophrenia.

European fertility clinics used cancer-causing sperm for 17 years, prompting urgent calls for genetic screening reforms and ...

Around 200 children in several countries were conceived with sperm from a single donor carrying a rare genetic mutation ...

Researchers have identified specific genes containing rare mutations that significantly increase the likelihood of developing ...

Because only part of the man's sperm carried the mutation, only the second round of genetic testing revealed the problem. By ...

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After more than 50 years of research, scientists still don't know exactly what causes autism. But the data make clear that ...

A genetic mutation that carries a 90% cancer risk has been passed on by an unwitting sperm donor to dozens of children, a ...