For more than a century, heredity has been framed through the tidy logic of Mendel’s pea plants: traits pass from parent to ...

A mouse study shows that about 7% of inherited DNA methylation patterns follow non-Mendelian rules, revealing unexpected ...

Mice show that DNA methylation tags can defy Mendel’s inheritance rules by appearing in offspring even when neither parent ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

An international team led by University of Manchester scientists has created the most detailed picture yet of how genetic differences shape the way the human eye works. The breakthrough could help ...

Cancer is caused by genetic changes that occur in our cells over time. There are two main types of changes, namely somatic mutations, which are alterations in the DNA sequence, and copy number ...

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 ...

BEIRUT – During one of my research trips to Lebanon, while conducting fieldwork for a larger book project, I found myself ...