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Kristian Tucker, a married mom of three from Spokane, Wash., felt as if she’d been punched in the chest after her toddler sons, Michael, 6, and Oliver, 2, were both diagnosed with childhood dementia as a result of a rare genetic disease.

The genetic variant APOE4 substantially raises the risk of Alzheimer's disease, but it has also been linked to women having more children in an Indigenous group in Bolivia

The new study explores the phenomenon of hair whorls — circular patterns of hair dictated by hair follicle positioning — in more than 4,000 Chinese people.

The closest living relatives of the bacteria that moved into the cells of a larger organism more than a billion years ago and eventually became mitochondria powering our cells may have been identified living in hot springs

Ancestry was a significant predictor of response to lithium by adults with bipolar disorder, based on data from 172 individuals.

Newly discovered genes could explain body fat differences between men and women with obesity, as well as why some people gain excess weight in childhood.

An interdisciplinary team of mathematicians, engineers, physicists, and medical scientists have uncovered an unexpected link between pure mathematics and genetics, that reveals key insights into the structure of neutral mutations and the evolution of organisms.

In a Mendelian randomization study, Fu Siong Ng and colleagues investigate how different anthropometric measures influence proarrhythmic 12-lead ECG indices.

Nobody knows what around a fifth of your genes actually do. It’s hoped they could hold the secret to fixing developmental disorders, cancer, neurodegeneration, and more.

Measuring levels of synaptic protein NPTX2 in cognitively normal adults may help predict onset of mild cognitive impairment years before symptoms emerge.