Examples include tobacco products ... or if you're displaying symptoms of a genetic disease. A specialist in genetics can talk to you about your risks of a certain condition in your specific ...

Genetics plays a key role in answering each ... Autosomal chromosomes are homologous, meaning they code for similar traits. For example, the two copies of chromosome 1 will have copies of the ...

Genetic diversity is being lost across many species – especially birds and mammals. But you can help stop the decline.

In those disorders, diseases result when an individual carries a mutation in both inherited copies of a gene, instead of only one in the ... that do not seem to destabilize the protein, for example.

Rutgers Health researchers have discovered that brain immune cells from people with a high genetic risk for alcohol use ...

Scientists at deCODE genetics/Amgen have constructed a complete map of how human DNA is mixed as it is passed down during reproduction. The map marks a major step in the understanding of genetic ...

who had members with some genetic mutation that caused an immune disorder. This work showed that in sick patients, the disease causing copy, or allele, was more likely to be active. But in the healthy ...

The inherited mutated gene WNT9B, which functions normally in embryonic prostate development, increases risk of adult prostate cancer, according to the Vanderbilt University Medical Center study ...

A new mega-database of half a million mutations may flag new ways of treating genetic disease ... For instance, the inherited form of cataracts — an eye disease that clouds the lens of the ...