No gene acts alone: interacting variants and protein partnerships can worsen, mask or even rescue disease risk, demanding ...
Learn how hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) affects families, the importance of genetic testing, and why regular screening is ...
Someone asked “What is a genetics fact that not a lot of people know?” and people detailed their best bits of info.
DNA doesn’t just sit still inside our cells — it folds, loops, and rearranges in ways that shape how genes behave.
The findings shed new light on human reproduction and suggest pathways for developing treatments to lower the risk of ...
Scientists discovered that aging DNA repeats expand at wildly different speeds—and in some people, the consequences can be devastating. A sweeping genetic study drawing on data from more than 900,000 ...
Scientists at Duke-NUS Medical School and the National University Health System (NUHS), together with an international team ...
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Ask the Expert: Genetics counseling

More people are turning to genetic counseling to understand their DNA and assess their risk for certain diseases. As part of ...
A new study led by Aaron Hobbs, Ph.D., and Rachel Burge, Ph.D., at MUSC Hollings Cancer Center, reveals why a specific gene ...
A new single-cell profiling technique has mapped pre-malignant gene mutations and their effects in solid tissues for the ...
Black patients and those from low-income neighborhoods are significantly less likely to be seen at genetics clinics, raising ...