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 ...

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 ...

Take a look back at the genetics stories that resonated most with readers this year. M uch of what shapes people’s lives ...

Several genes with varying inheritance patterns are involved in determining your blood type. The most significant gene is the ABO gene which determines your ABO blood type. Like many of your physical ...

Genetic factors account for much of the variation in personality traits across the lifespan. Shared upbringing plays a ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In order to study the inheritance pattern of morpho-physiological traits in bread wheat, a 10×10 diallel cross, excluding reciprocals was made ...

For decades, geneticists have known that most common illnesses are not caused by a single rogue gene but by intricate ...

Researchers have identified specific coupled patterns of brain activity and gene expression that help explain impulsive ...

A new study from the NIH’s All of Us program is shaking up long-held assumptions by revealing that genetic ancestry rarely aligns with racial labels — and that the interplay between biology and ...

Black patients and patients from socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhoods are dramatically under-represented in genetics clinics—often at rates half or less than those of white patients or ...