Yes, cancer is fundamentally a genetic disease, but not only a hereditary one. Most cancers arise from mutations acquired ...

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.

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 ...

Genetics research in Parkinson's disease has identified over 100 risk loci, yet translating these findings into understanding ...

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

GeneDx CEO Katherine Stueland explains how her company screens babies’ DNA for mutations that cause thousands of treatable ...

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

A large-scale study compared body fat levels with markers of metabolic health, such as blood pressure, cholesterol and blood ...

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

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