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 study focused on so-called coding genetic variants, i.e. variants that are known to change the protein product of the gene. The results of the study, published in Nature on January 18, 2023, ...

The COVID-19 pandemic gave us tremendous perspective on how wildly symptoms and outcomes can vary between patients experiencing the same infection. How can two people infected by the same pathogen ...

Can a parent’s genes affect a child’s mental health beyond inheritance? New research explains the surprising role of family environment.

The earliest studies of genetic inheritance were very straightforward - Gregor Mendel documented the passage of certain easily observable traits as they passed down through generations of pea plants.

Genetics can play a role in a person's odds for Alzheimer's disease, and new research suggests differences in that risk are based on which parent had the illness. In a study of 4,400 people still ...

Some scientists say humans may be entering a new phase of evolution, one in which culture is becoming more powerful than genes in shaping our survival and future. At the heart of that idea is a ...

The reasons why gifted individuals are born are not singular; it is considered the result of a combination of numerous innate genes overlapping with subsequent environmental stimuli, leading to the ...

Researchers analyzed genetic data from over a million individuals to identify 1,260 specific genomic locations associated ...

Indian mustard, one of the world’s most important oilseed crops, has long frustrated breeders trying to exploit hybrid vigor ...