Researchers at the University of California San Diego have identified new genetic variants associated with autism spectrum ...

A new study of German twins suggests that the strong connection between a young adult's cognitive ability and their future socioeconomic status is largely driven by their genes, rather than shared ...

An insightful mini-review published in Genomic Psychiatry synthesizes the rapidly expanding landscape of molecular genetic research on common epilepsies, assembling evidence from genome-wide ...

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

By utilizing long-read sequencing, an emerging technique that reads large sections of the genome at once, scientists at UC San Diego have revealed new genetic variants associated with autism spectrum ...

Although mental disorders have multifactorial causes, genetics can explain some of them, yet this field remains largely unexplored in terms of guiding diagnoses and treatments. In the largest study of ...

Researchers use long-read genome sequencing to discover 33% more structural variants and 38% more tandem repeats linked to autism spectrum disorder.

COVID vaccines saved millions of lives, but months into the rollout, a small number of people began developing dangerous ...

Researchers at the University of California San Diego have identified new genetic variants associated with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) by using long-read whole genome sequencing (LR-WGS), an ...

Genetic medicine has made huge progress over the past two decades. Gene therapy, gene editing, and mRNA treatments are now approved for a growing number of conditions. These approaches focus on fixing ...