Your genes play a huge role in what makes and shapes your entire existence. Since you inherit your genes from your parents, ...

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (Duncan NRI) at Texas ...

Scientists have pinpointed nearly 300 "hotspots" in the human genome that may increase the risk of bipolar disorder. In the largest study of its kind to date, an international research team conducted ...

The root causes of most forms of Alzheimer's disease largely remain a mystery. Now, researchers have revealed a new piece of ...

A TEEN who’s been diagnosed with melanoma twice and had two brain tumours removed, all before the age of 18, has a rare ...

What makes the human brain unique? A Yale study unlocks new insights into genetic changes that shaped our evolution.

A team led by University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health geneticists has shown, for the first time, that a gene ...

The condition means she has chromosome deletion of her CDKN2A ... She is hoping to one day write a book about her rare genetic disorder. She said: 'All within in two years - it's hard to think ...

An 18-year-old college student had her world turned upside down when she discovered she had a rare genetic disorder that made ...

A combination of human pedigree analysis and fruit fly genetics has identified a gene variant that appears to prevent PIGA-CDG, a rare but serious seizure disorder. The findings could ultimately lead ...