Data from a major U.S. clinical trial from the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology has uncovered a genetic factor that ...

Researchers found a genetic variant that appears to protect against the development of CHIP, a phenomenon that can lead to ...

A genetic mutation passed from mother to children in families affected by schizophrenia has now been shown to completely ...

Heart disease is still the number one cause of death among adults worldwide. High cholesterol levels are one contributor to heart disease. Researchers have now developed a method that can analyze a ...

Potentially more than 90% of Alzheimer's disease cases would not occur without the contribution of a single gene (APOE), ...

Genetic variation is the foundation of human diversity, enabling differences in traits such as height, eye color, or blood type. Some sequence variants also cause inherited diseases, including sickle ...

A new study into the APOE gene suggests two variants may influence Alzheimer's and dementia risk more than previously thought ...

A new study published in Communications Medicine, a Nature publication, details the discovery of rare gene variants that increase the prevalence of Type 2 diabetes in multiple generations of Asian ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — A genetic variant is likely putting some children suffering with myocarditis — inflammation of the heart muscle — at higher risk of developing heart failure, which can be fatal, ...

Researchers have discovered 195 genomic regions jointly associated with schizophrenia and osteoporosis-related traits, ...

For decades, psychiatrists have told patients that conditions like schizophrenia and severe depression arise from a tangled mix of genes and life experience, with no single culprit to blame. Now ...