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 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 ...

For decades, the “classical view” of genetics has hewn closely to the original work of Austro-Hungarian biologist Gregor ...

From classroom worksheets to interactive games, learning Punnett squares can turn genetics from intimidating to intuitive. These tools help students visualize inheritance, predict outcomes, and ...

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, ...

Everyday DNA mutations can help us understand immune function and aging—and even mitigate harm caused by some inherited ...

A major twin-family study from Germany has found that narcissistic traits are passed down entirely through genetic inheritance, challenging long-standing beliefs that parenting styles are a key driver ...

Although schwannomatosis is a genetic condition, the inheritance patterns for this disorder are complex and much less clear than for both NF1 and NF2. Some cases of schwannomatosis are familial, with ...

I recently underwent genetic testing to see if I had any mutations that could be associated with an increased cancer risk. When I received my genetic testing kit in the mail, I quickly opened the ...

Dear Readers: For most people, finding out that they have come into an inheritance is a positive experience. Not so when that inheritance is early onset familial Alzheimer's disease (eFAD). This type ...