Less than 30% of people with certain genetic variants go blind, despite the faulty genes previously being thought to cause ...

A new genetic mapping strategy reveals how entire networks of genes work together to cause disease, filling in the missing ...

A 35-year-old female A visited several hospitals for repeated flank pain and hematuria from a few years ago, but did not ...

Environmental factors such as lifestyle and the medications you take influence the effects your genes have on your body — and can clarify how diseases develop. When you purchase through links on our ...

Investigations suggest V2P may be efficiently applied for the automated identification of causal variants in simulated and actual patient sequencing data across phenotypes.

Huntington’s disease (HD) is one of those rare conditions that affects not just the patient but the entire family—medically, emotionally and genetically. This inherited brain disorder causes gradual ...

Genetic inheritance may sound straightforward: One gene causes one trait or a specific illness. When doctors use genetics, it’s usually to try to identify a disease-causing gene to help guide ...

Don and Anne Edwards have donated $11 million to Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital to establish what will be the ...

The study of cacao genetics has provided profound insights into the domestication, diversity and disease resistance mechanisms of Theobroma cacao. Recent advances in genomic sequencing and mapping ...

A collaborative study from the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS) and Imperial College London has found that the ...