Psychiatric disorders can share common genetic influences, which means parts of DNA can be at the root of more than one mental condition, new research has found. The study, led by researchers at Texas ...

Two landmark studies reveal the psychiatric disorders genetic link across eight to fourteen conditions through shared ...

A major genetic study has uncovered a surprisingly common recessive cause of neurodevelopmental disorder, revealing how hidden changes in a small RNA gene can disrupt brain development and open new ...

The vast dataset allowed the Johns Hopkins University-led team to demonstrate robust connections between specific variations in a mother's DNA and their risk of miscarriage. The findings shed new ...

A 6-year-old girl is one of more than 80 people worldwide who has finally received a diagnosis of a new condition following research by scientists and doctors in Manchester. Ava Begley's parents say ...

Structural variants (SVs) are alterations in the DNA sequence that involve large-scale changes, typically longer than 50 base pairs. Advances in long-read sequencing have significantly increased ...

Case Western Reserve University is part of a landmark study that has discovered four novel gene variations associated with blood pressure. The 19-site meta-analysis, involving nearly 30,000 ...

For years, the common belief among scientists was that human evolution had basically slowed to a crawl once we invented ...

A genetic difference carried by nearly one in three people may increase the risk of severe COVID-19 and lung fibrosis by disrupting the function of a previously unknown protein, according to a new ...