People with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) — often an inherited disease marked by abnormally thickened heart muscle — face a looming risk of heart failure, arrhythmia, and sudden cardiac arrest.

Clinicians' ability to diagnose and treat chronic diseases is limited by scientific uncertainty around factors contributing ...

Discover how in some communities around the world, the prevalence of rare diseases is higher due to factors like cousin ...

A novel treatment for Leber's Hereditary Optic Neuropathy (LHON), a rare genetic disease that can lead to sudden loss of ...

A new genome-wide study uncovers evidence of the first three-way relationships between human genetic variation, variation in ...

Huntington’s disease (HD) is one of those rare conditions that affects not just the patient but the entire family—medically, emotionally and genetically. This inherited brain disorder causes gradual ...

Clinicians’ ability to diagnose and treat chronic diseases is limited by scientific uncertainty around factors contributing ...

An international team of researchers led by Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the University of Copenhagen in ...

The study of cacao genetics has provided profound insights into the domestication, diversity and disease resistance mechanisms of Theobroma cacao. Recent advances in genomic sequencing and mapping ...

Researchers have found that risk for developing dementia is related to genetic risk for coronary artery disease.

Kangaroo Island in South Australia is home to a large, mostly disease-free koala population which, at first glance, looks ...