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.

Genetic data show that 14 psychiatric diagnoses cluster into five families of shared risk, explaining why conditions like ...

Researchers found that Neanderthals carried excess modern human DNA on their X chromosomes, pointing to predominantly male Neanderthals mating with female modern humans. The results suggest social ...

Psychological development is like a river flowing along its course. From birth, our psychological maturation runs along ...

"Monogenic" diseases, triggered by mutations in just one gene, may actually be more complex than scientists thought.

But the study, published Thursday in the journal Science, shows “that whenever Neanderthals and modern humans have mated, ...

For decades, scientists believed a fertilized egg’s DNA began as a shapeless mass, only organizing itself once the embryo switched on its genes. But new research reveals that the genome is already ...

Plant breeding has contributed to the sustainability of crop production since antiquity and is expected to play an increasingly important role in the ...

The study offers one of the most detailed maps yet of how human antibody responses vary from person to person.

Ancient linkups may have happened more frequently between female humans and male Neanderthals, according to an new genetic analysis. Scientists know that Neanderthals and humans mated because there is ...

The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia.