Forty years ago, a postdoctoral researcher named James McGrath who would go on to spend more than three decades as a clinical geneticist and research scientist at Yale, made a discovery that advanced ...
The researchers identified more than 200 VUS in patients with suspected IEIs from this database and organized them into clusters based on gene function. They found that these clusters correlated with ...
Take a look back at the genetics stories that resonated most with readers this year. M uch of what shapes people’s lives ...
Genetic disorders can occur due to mutations in one gene (monogenic), multiple genes (multifactorial inheritance), and mutation in one or more chromosomes. Point mutations are where one nucleotide in ...
Which genes are required for turning embryonic stem cells into brain cells, and what happens when this process goes wrong? In ...
A multi-omics study identifies causal genes and biological subtypes of long COVID, revealing new therapeutic targets for ...
A new study from the NIH’s All of Us program is shaking up long-held assumptions by revealing that genetic ancestry rarely aligns with racial labels — and that the interplay between biology and ...
In this new study, a research group from the University of Zurich is using for the first time genetic evidence of historical mixing between populations to investigate the effects of contact on ...