Black patients and those from low-income neighborhoods are significantly less likely to be seen at genetics clinics, raising ...

When the Human Genome Project was completed back in 2003, its top researcher Dr. Francis Collins, now the head of the National Institutes of Health, referred to it as “the first draft of the human ...

The completion of the human genome sequence brought renewed hope that genetic causes and susceptibilities to disease could be identified. But for Alzheimer disease (AD), little has really changed.

Researchers at UCLA Health have found that a person's risk of developing psychotic-like experiences may be influenced by both childhood attention problems and their genetic makeup. The findings, ...

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 ...

With genetic rescue, introducing unrelated individuals from another population can alleviate these genetic problems." "It allows natural selection to increase the amount of beneficial genetic material ...

The causes of autism spectrum disorder are poorly understood; some studies have indicated that there are genetic links, but that doesn’t explain every autism case. Scientists have now found that a ...

Genetics play a role in low testosterone for some men, but underlying causes vary widely. Many genes influence testosterone ...

(HealthDay News) — A questionnaire improves discussion of psychosocial problems during genetic counseling sessions for cancer, according to research published online July 21 in the Journal of Clinical ...

I’ve always been tempted to do a genetic test to check in on my heart. I’m in pretty good health, but I have a few close relatives who’ve had heart attacks, strokes, and cancer, so I know my genes ...