Evolutionary genetics is the study of how genetic variation leads to evolutionary change. It includes topics such as the evolution of genome structure, the genetic basis of speciation and adaptation, ...

The COVID-19 pandemic gave us tremendous perspective on how wildly symptoms and outcomes can vary between patients experiencing the same infection. How can two people infected by the same pathogen ...

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 ...

New data from the 8,660-participant ROPAD cohort corroborate that ITSN1 loss-of-function variants raise Parkinson's disease ...

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a public health challenge that affects more than 800 million people worldwide. 1 CKD can be caused by a variety of disease processes. Many causes are difficult to ...

Borderline intellectual functioning is influenced by genetics, but it is not determined by a single gene passed directly from ...

Genetic counselor Julie Beasley explained how genetic testing and counseling can help individuals identify inherited cancer ...

A new genetic study shows that melon fruit sweetness arises from the additive effects of multiple loci rather than a single ...