We are all influenced in multiple ways by intergenerational factors, and knowing more about this can be informative and instructive for present-day life.

Julie Lingenfelter Moyer looks at photos of her great-grandmother, Ruth Russell Koontz, at the Blair County Genealogical Society in Hollidaysburg. Moyer used DNA testing to help figure out how ...

We know that donor-conceived people appreciate the opportunity to grow up knowing their genetic family, including their half-siblings. When parents initiate contact with donor relatives ...

One such method is forensic genetic genealogy. The GOLD Unit works with Rae-Venter to develop family trees of cold-case suspects using commercial DNA databases. Rae-Venter is the founder of ...

The research used genetic sleuthing to offer a rare snapshot of Neanderthal family dynamics — including a father and his teenage daughter who lived together in Siberia more than 50,000 years ago.

and genetic evolution. While scientists initially relied on family trees (or pedigrees) to delineate these pairwise ...

"We found that dogs at high genetic risk of obesity were more interested in food," said Natalie Wallis of the University of Cambridge's Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience ...