For more than a century, heredity has been framed through the tidy logic of Mendel’s pea plants: traits pass from parent to ...

An international team of researchers led by King’s College London have identified genetic factors that may make some individuals more or less sensitive to the environments they experience. Published ...

While lifestyle choices, including diet and activity level, play an important role in a person’s risk of obesity, genetics can also shape natural tendencies toward weight gain or loss. In fact, genes ...

A new study has developed a powerful computational method that can detect how genes interact with each other to influence complex traits in humans at a scale previously impossible. The new method was ...

It has long been known that environmental conditions can shape how traits are inherited, a phenomenon known as transgenerational epigenetic inheritance. However, the molecular signals responsible for ...

Extreme values for cholesterol, glucose, and height are driven by rare, high-impact genetic variants rather than polygenic ...

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have found evidence that people who fall at the extreme high or ...

Research shows that the biological parents' genes affect the child's insulin function and capacity to regulate blood sugar levels and blood lipids in different ways. Such knowledge may be used to to ...