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 ...

Gregor Mendel described his experiments with pea plants and proved that genes are transmitted in discrete units, with certain ...

The Y chromosome is inherited only through the paternal line. Sons receive their Y chromosome exclusively from their father.

How big of a role do our genes play in our lifespan? Quite a bit more than previously thought, a new study suggests.

Modern research shows height is shaped by both nature and nurture. Genes establish a framework, while the environment determines expression. Neither factor works in isolation. Accepting this ...

Cystic fibrosis represents one of the most common inherited genetic disorders affecting people of European descent, touching the lives of approximately 30,000 individuals in the United States alone.

Although schwannomatosis is a genetic condition, the inheritance patterns for this disorder are complex and much less clear than for both NF1 and NF2. Some cases of schwannomatosis are familial, with ...

Using twin data from TEDS, researchers compared polygenic score prediction within families and across the population. They found that about half of predictive power for cognitive and educational ...