It is often difficult to advocate for the importance of gene inheritance and transmission. After all, why should anyone care about Mendelian genetics? Mendel did excellent work, but his research was ...

How much of our lifespan is written in our genes, and how much is sitting on our plates? A new analysis suggests that while ...

Jaime Murillo, MD, explores genetic inheritance patterns of Lp(a) from childhood to adulthood, highlighting stability, factors affecting measurement, and awareness challenges among those in the health ...

The blueprint of who we are begins with the genes passed down from our parents. While these inherited traits give us our eye color and height, they can also contain instructions that increase our risk ...

Cystic fibrosis represents one of the most common inherited genetic disorders affecting people of European descent, touching the lives of approximately 30,000 individuals in the United States alone.

The Y chromosome is inherited only through the paternal line. Sons receive their Y chromosome exclusively from their father.

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 ...

Before beginning this month’s blog topic, I want to mention a couple of developments related to our UAB NF Program. First, one of the adult neuro-oncologists who worked with patients in our NF Clinic, ...

These activities introduce ideas about heredity, observing the differences and similarities in a population, and modeling how inheritance works. Campers can think about organisms as systems in which ...

Touching Base is the dynamic podcast series from the editors of GEN. Each episode features a rotating case of senior editors—including John Sterling, Kevin Davies, Julianna LeMieux, Alex Phillippidis, ...