Despite 13% of the American population living with a disability, stigma and discrimination persist. With 44 million Americans living with some form of disability, it is more critical than ever to ...

This article was written for our sponsor, Alliance Health. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that 26.8 percent of adults in North Carolina have some type of intellectual or ...

Researchers identify gene causing intellectual disability syndrome that is common in countries where consanguineous marriages are prevalent. It used to take several years or sometimes decades to ...

TORONTO, Dec. 15 /CNW/ - A gene involved in some forms of intellectual disability has been identified by scientists at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), as published this month in The ...

It used to take several years or sometimes decades to unequivocally identify the genes that cause rare human syndromes that affect very few individuals. Nowadays, however, human geneticists and fly ...

Mutations in "junk DNA" could be responsible for rare genetic cases of intellectual disability, new research hints. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.