A review article now published in Nature Reviews Genetics brings together evolutionary theory, comparative genomics and large ...

For more than a century, heredity has been framed through the tidy logic of Mendel’s pea plants: traits pass from parent to ...

Lamia Wahba is studying how information outside the genetic code can pass between generations and what that means for evolution and disease. When we think about genetic inheritance, we usually leap to ...

A major mouse study found that some inherited traits are passed down through epigenetic changes that break the classic rules ...

A new study has provided new insights into the the genetic overlap among some psychiatric disorders, and can help explain why it’s not uncommon for several of these disorders to arise in the same ...

Our parents' genes, even the ones we didn't inherit, leave a measurable lasting imprint on our lives. An international team led by researchers at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) ...

A study led by researchers at King's College London and QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute has analyzed genetic data ...