Rapidly testing hundreds of thousands of DNA sequences, scientists identified specific genetic variations contributing to blood pressure, cholesterol, and blood sugar.

In “What We Inherit,” Sam Trejo and Daphne O. Martschenko examine the link between genetic myths and social genomics.

For more than a century, Mendelian genetics has shaped how we think about inheritance: one gene, one trait. It is a model that still echoes through textbooks—and one that is increasingly reaching its ...

Extracting and analyzing relevant medical information from large-scale databases such as biobanks poses considerable challenges. To exploit such "big data," attempts have focused on large sampling ...

Thanks to society telling them to bottle up their emotions to not appear weak, men who hide their stress behind silence ...

Are you a logical thinker? Do you thrive on data and easily spot patterns? If so, you are a highly analytical mind. This way of thinking is special. People who think this way make for great ...

ABSTRACT: Epigenetic mechanisms regulate and stabilize a broad range of biological processes without altering the primary DNA sequence. This regulation is achieved through DNA methylation, ...

Researchers have created detailed genetic maps that show how large networks of genes drive disease, filling in long-missing biological gaps. The breakthrough could change how scientists identify and ...

Putting the two sources together allowed the researchers to build a detailed map of the gene networks that influence red blood cell traits. The picture that emerged showed a remarkably complex genetic ...

Today's biomedical researchers are relentlessly searching for genes that drive disease, with the goal of creating therapies that target those genes to restore health. When a single gene is the culprit ...

A sweeping new analysis argues that complex cells began evolving almost a billion years earlier than many timelines suggest, long before oxygen became abundant in Earth’s atmosphere. Led by the ...

Sequencing nearly half a million genomes, researchers show that most additive genetic influences on height, lipids, and other complex traits are now directly measurable, while pinpointing ultra-rare ...