Autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease (ADAD) is a genetically inherited form of Alzheimer's disease that accounts for only ...

Health researchers say Mississippi has the highest colorectal cancer death rate in the nation, and findings from a new study ...

Find out how a MAVS gene variant was associated with Kaposi sarcoma in people living with HIV and what the findings could ...

Many people assume that some memory decline is an inevitable consequence of getting older. But a select group of older adults ...

Scientists have found that a special component in some people's blood provides them with natural protection against malaria. A recent study has demonstrated that a genetic variant named rs112233623-T ...

Genome-first analyses in UK Biobank and All of Us support RBM20 as an arrhythmogenic DCM gene, with an etiologic fraction of 0.53 and significant association strength. Comparative risk modeling showed ...

Genetic risk models, including PREMMplus and BOADICEA/CanRisk, refine breast cancer risk assessment by incorporating genetic status and polygenic risk scores. Challenges in classifying gene variants, ...

Researchers identified shared genetic loci and pathogenic mechanisms linking inflammatory bowel disease with several ...

Genetic inheritance may sound straightforward: One gene causes one trait or a specific illness. When doctors use genetics, it’s usually to try to identify a disease-causing gene to help guide ...

New structural variation sequencing reads long stretches of fetal DNA to pinpoint duplications, flips, and rearrangements, ...

The arrival of agriculture coincided with a sharp rise in a gene variant that protected against the virus that causes winter vomiting, researchers from Karolinska Institutet and Linköping University ...