One to two out of every 100 newborn babies are born with a Congenital Heart Defect (CHD), yet the exact cause remains unclear ...

An autoimmune disorder that affects the thyroid gland, called autoimmune hypothyroidism (AIHT), is the most common autoimmune ...

The variant of the CHRNB3 gene, involved in the regulation of the substance, is starting to be considered as a possible ...

Scientists have identified how specific genetic changes function in cells to influence disease risk and other human health ...

Rapidly testing hundreds of thousands of DNA sequences, scientists identified specific genetic variations contributing to blood pressure, cholesterol, and blood sugar.

An exome-wide association study of nearly 38,000 smokers from the Mexico City Prospective Study identified rare coding ...

“We have discovered that people carrying rare, naturally occurring mutations in a gene called CHRNB3 tend to smoke significantly fewer cigarettes per day,” explain the study’s lead authors, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Prevalence of pathogenic variants in cancer-susceptibility genes appeared independent of personal or family ...

Rare telomere and non-telomere genetic variants significantly affect survival in IPF patients, with non-additive effects on common risk variants. Polygenic risk scores (PRS-IPF) may play a crucial ...

Aging is a highly complex process with substantial heterogeneity in health trajectories between individuals. Frailty is a condition in which the body loses its resilience and becomes more vulnerable ...