Understanding gene regulation may be key to interpreting human disease genetics. Genes are regulated in part by stretches of ...

Who we are and who we become may be in our genes, at least partially. A new study links a variety of gene variants to various ...

Scientists have discovered that platinum-based chemotherapy drugs commonly used to treat childhood cancers can cause ...

A long-running DNA mystery linked to cancer and chromosome behavior may finally have been cracked. The breakthrough, ...

Before a cell divides, its DNA is replicated so that each daughter cell inherits the same genetic information. The two copies, known as "sister chromatids," are held together by a ring-shaped protein ...

Schizophrenia, height, cholesterol. Each has its own genetic signature. That signature is made up of genetic variants: small ...

Personality is something we all share, but the different ways we think and feel also make us unique. Personality is relatively stable and influences nearly every aspect of human life, from academic ...

While common genetic changes have been found to have an important role in the onset of ADHD through prior research on deoxyribonucleic acid —commonly known as DNA, a molecule in the body containing ...

Sexual reproduction usually reshuffles genetic information, creating offspring that differ from their parents. But one small ...

Genetic risk for PTSD appears to interact differently with different traumatic experiences, with some of the strongest patterns linked to childhood trauma.

DNA so degraded it would normally be thrown out just gave researchers a foothold in solving a mystery buried in museum bone ...