The emergence in the Neolithic of patrilineal 1 social systems, in which children are affiliated with their father's lineage, may explain a spectacular decline in the genetic diversity of the Y ...

By analyzing thousands of genetic risk variants, a new algorithm may be able to predict your risk of developing chronic kidney disease decades before onset.

U.S. medical experts studied genetic code and found 275 million new variants that could explain why some people are more prone to disease than others.

A new study finds a genetic mutation may explain why. Here to tell us more is study co-author Jill Hollenbach, a professor of neurology and epidemiology at UC San Francisco.

Led by Ioannis Karakikes of Stanford University, a new study suggests some hospitalized patients with COVID-19 contain ACE2 genetic variants that increase ACE2 expression. Some variants that ...

Falk and her coauthor briefly explain how genetic disorders can be inherited through mutations in parents' chromosomes, or the mutation can occur spontaneously in the child's chromosomes.

By Dr. Sanchari Sinha Dutta, Ph.D. From dwarfism to overgrowth, scientists unravel the complex genetic blueprint that determines how tall—or short—we become. Review: The genetic basis of human ...

The common genetic variation linked to dyslexia may also help explain why some people without the learning difficulty are not good readers, researchers said on Wednesday.