The first gene-regulating treatment for epilepsy achieves promising results in an initial trial with 81 patients ...
Melanin can either protect or worsen hereditary hearing loss depending on genetic context, as reported by researchers from Japan. Using genetically engineered mice lacking the SLC26A4 gene, the ...
A sweeping new peer-reviewed study published in Genomic Psychiatry has introduced a concept that could reshape how psychiatrists and geneticists think about mental illness: genetic specificity.
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More than 12,000 years ago, two closely-related women – a mother and her daughter, perhaps – were buried in an eternal embrace. This Ice Age pair of hunter-gatherers were both shorter than average for ...
A new study used data from the UK Biobank to analyze the genes of 469,789 people in the UK and found that one in 1,000 possessed genetic variants with a likely link to cardiac transthyretin (ATTR) ...
A genetic analysis reveals that ancient pairings between humans and Neanderthals favored female humans mating with male Neanderthals, shedding light on their interactions.