Over the past few years, scientists in the field of psychiatric genetics have found that there are common genetic threads ...

Researchers at Mayo Clinic's Center for Individualized Medicine have discovered a rare genetic variant that can directly ...

A seminal study has uncovered a new genetic cause of neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs). The discovery offers both closure and hope to potentially thousands of families worldwide who have long been ...

An Israeli study has identified TRIM63 as a significant genetic contributor to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM)—the most ...

This rare genetic condition causes hyperflexible joints, fragile skin, and possibly other symptoms, depending on which of 13 ...

A Series in The Lancet Neurology provides state-of-the-art reviews covering clinical and scientific evidence on the four most common genetic subtypes of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), caused by ...

In psychology, the term subjective well-being (SWB) is used to describe the extent to which different people feel happy and ...

Variants in genes encoding common components of the growth hormone ... Primordial dwarfism is a group of genetic disorders characterized by severe growth arrest that begins before birth and ...

Although sedentary behavior may be an evolutionarily selected trait, it is still important to try to be physically active, says a new study. Researchers have shown for the first time that genetic ...

Among the targets Liu and his team have already pursued with prime editing: cystic fibrosis, a common genetic disease usually caused by three missing DNA letters that causes thick mucus buildup ...

Scientists at The Jackson Laboratory have discovered how aging blood stem cells acquire mutations that give them a growth ...

A seminal study from researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and their collaborators in the United Kingdom, Belgium, Spain, the Netherlands, and Iceland has uncovered a new genetic ...