Sitting in my doctor's examination room, I was surprised when she told me, "Genetics don't really matter for chronic disease.

Environmental factors such as lifestyle and the medications you take influence the effects your genes have on your body − and ...

Sitting in my doctor's examination room, I was surprised when she told me, "Genetics don't really matter for chronic disease.

Prader-Willi syndrome is a rare genetic disease that causes poor feeding in infancy but later triggers insatiable hunger.

Obsessive compulsive disorder has many unknowns, including what causes it, why symptoms can differ so much between people, ...

Hopkins neuroscientist Richard Huganir is close to finding a potential life-changing treatment for kids with SYNGAP1-related ...

Genetic testing is an analysis of the animal's DNA, which allows you to obtain information about the dog's origin, identify predispositions to various diseases, as well as behavioral characteristics, ...

He’s among the first to be successfully treated with a custom therapy that seeks to fix a tiny but critical error in his ...

Ancestry and lifestyle choices of parents may affect the rate and type of new genetic changes that arise in their children, ...

Resources are available to help physicians when they encounter variants of unknown significance during genetic testing, Troy ...