Genetics is the study of how living things receive common traits from previous generations. These traits are described by the genetic information carried by a molecule called DNA. The instructions for ...

Purpose: There is an expanding gap between the availability of direct-to-consumer whole genome testing and physician knowledge regarding interpretation of test results. Advances in the genomic ...

For decades, high school teachers used Gregor Mendel and his pea plants to teach kids in ninth grade on up the fundamentals of genetics. Today’s kids don’t care beans about those peas. They want to ...

Fisher's (1918) classic paper on the inheritance of complex traits not only founded the field of quantitative genetics, but also coined the term variance and introduced the powerful statistical method ...

No field of science has changed more, or changed the world more, in the last 50 years than genetics – the study of how our physical and behavioural traits are inherited. These experiments illuminated ...