Lamia Wahba is studying how information outside the genetic code can pass between generations and what that means for evolution and disease. When we think about genetic inheritance, we usually leap to ...

The association between parents' BMI and their children's BMI during childhood may be primarily due to genetic inheritance ...

The question of how the effects of genetic variants combine to produce continuous traits, such as height and blood pressure, as well as complex diseases, including diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease, ...

A new study has provided new insights into the the genetic overlap among some psychiatric disorders, and can help explain why it’s not uncommon for several of these disorders to arise in the same ...

Cousin marriages, especially common in Pakistan and parts of the Middle East and South Asia, increase the likelihood of inherited genetic disorders because closely related parents may carry the same ...

Approximately 40% of adults in the USA are classified as living with obesity—a chronic condition that affects the risk of several health conditions including type 2 diabetes (T2D) and cardiovascular ...

Why do some people feel chills when listening to music, reading poetry, or viewing a powerful work of art, while others do not? New research by Giacomo Bignardi and his colleagues from Max Planck ...

How much an infant cries is largely steered by their genetics and there is probably not much that parents can do about it. This has been shown in a new Swedish twin study from Uppsala University and ...