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In 2024 Stephen Rich and his colleagues published a study in which they assessed the genetic risk of developing type 1 ...

The Human Genome Project, launched in 1990 and completed in 2003, also moved the needle. Scientists had successfully ...

Breast cancer affects many women globally. While most cases are random, some stem from inherited genes like BRCA1 and BRCA2.

A new study from Karolinska Institutet, published in npj Precision Oncology, shows that support cells in the adrenal gland ...

Even within a single species, animals don't all respond in the same way to environmental changes. A new study of reed frogs ...

There’s both fact and fiction to the rumors that twins run in families and tend to skip a generation. Here’s how heredity impacts your odds of conceiving twins.

IgA nephropathy has a complex hereditary pattern. You may not develop it unless you inherit multiple risk genes and also ...

Doctors can order genetic tests for people at high risk of breast cancer, and insurance often covers those, Kamal says. For ...