A genetic breakthrough reveals why mental health conditions often occur together. New research identifies five disorder ...

Researchers have discovered that eight different psychiatric conditions share a common genetic basis. A study published in ...

Over the next two years, the planned funding will be allocated to projects that have received some FDA feedback as well as emerging efforts.

A study that analyzed the genetic code of a quarter of a million U.S. volunteers found more than 275 million entirely new variants that may help explain why some groups are more prone to disease than ...

AMD is one of the rarest documented genetic disorders. Only around 10 million people in the world carry the altered NPR2 gene, and of those, just 3,500 are estimated to display the physiological ...

Researchers from the Institute of Translational Genomics at Helmholtz Munich have described a genetic overlap between type 2 diabetes (T2D), a disease that is also associated with obesity, and ...

Heritability isn't a fixed biological property but a measure that depends entirely on the population and circumstances you're ...

Katie Bergstrom is a licensed, certified genetic counselor with a specialty in pediatric hematology/oncology. She works at the Cancer and Blood Disorders Center at Seattle Children's Hospital. Katie ...

Is Obesity Genetic or Environmental? Get All the Details This article was reviewed by Lynn Marie Morski, MD, JD. Key ...