Behavioural genetics is the interdisciplinary effort to establish causal links between genes and animal (including human) behavioural traits and neural mechanisms. Methods used include twin studies, ...

Mitochondrial DNA is exclusively passed down from the mother, playing a crucial role in energy production for eggs and ...

When we think about genetic inheritance, we usually leap to DNA, the four-letter code containing the instructions for building a living organism. Scientists know that DNA encodes everything from hair ...

Population cohorts combining genetics with multi-organ imaging reveal that brain disorders share a distributed genetic ...

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 ...

Albinism comprises a heterogeneous group of rare genetic disorders and occurs in all ethnic groups. It is characterised by impaired melanin biosynthesis, resulting in variable hypopigmentation of the ...

The retrospective analysis of more than 650 pediatric patients with ID/DD demonstrated that WGS identified a genetic diagnosis in 31.1% of children overall, with the diagnostic yield reaching 35.3% ...