studies of the genetic basis of circadian disorders has confirmed the conservation of key players in circadian biology from invertebrates to humans. In addition, important advances have been made ...

Your genes play a huge role in what makes and shapes your entire existence. Since you inherit your genes from your parents, you tend to share things like hair type or athletic ability. Unfortunately, ...

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

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

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

Researchers find a master epigenetic switch that activates silenced genes to compensate for their missing counterparts in a ...

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

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 ...

In 2019 an international team of researchers identified 109 genes that were associated in different combinations with eight ...

Evidence suggests genetics plays a big role, and specific gene variants have been tied to the disorder in the past. However, most of that past research was conducted in people of European ancestry.

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 ...