Research on Tourette’s indicates that the condition is strongly influenced by inherited genetic factors, with environmental factors also contributing to its development. Tourette syndrome is a ...

Mendel's famous laws of heredity, established over a century ago, may not be as universal as once thought. A recent study on ...

Scientists found that some inherited traits can bypass the traditional rules of genetics, revealing a surprising new layer of ...

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 ...

For more than a century, heredity has been framed through the tidy logic of Mendel’s pea plants: traits pass from parent to offspring by fixed genetic rules. But a new mouse study suggests that ...

Scientists have long known that the DNA code in genes is not the only way to pass genetic traits from parents to offspring. "Epigenetic" marks—chemical modifications to DNA that don't change the DNA ...

Why does multiple sclerosis progress quickly in some people, while others remain stable for years? Researchers from the ...

Parents pass their genes down to their kids, with a child inheriting about 50% of their genome from each parent. But there is another kind of genetic code known as the epigenome that can also be ...

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 ...

Primary immunodeficiency diseases (PIDs) are monogenic inborn errors of immunity (IEIs) and categorized into 10 groups. There are currently 555 IEIs caused by inherited defects in one or more ...

Immunoglobulin A (IgA) nephropathy, also called Berger disease, is a rare autoimmune kidney disease. It is also a leading cause of kidney failure. Most cases are sporadic, and scientists do not know ...