DNA makes RNA, RNA makes protein, protein makes phenotype—was the guiding framework for understanding inheritance and disease ...

The consistent expression of Mendelian traits in both mice and humans is the exception rather than the rule. Many biological aspects of a trait can vary and for different reasons. However, one ...

For the past century, Mendelian and multifactorial traits have existed at opposite ends of the disease spectrum in humans. Furthermore, the recent emphasis on genome-wide association studies for ...

Humans are now known to have between 20,000 and 25,000 genes, but researchers still have much to learn about these small ...

During Mendel’s time, it was believed that the trait that would appear in the offspring was the result of mixing and merging between the parents’ traits.

Ethical concerns aside, the genetic ingredients for human traits are so complex that editing a few embryonic genes is unlikely to have much effect — or achieve the fantasy of enhancing humans.

But for some reason this is one of the “myths” about genetics that gets spread around in high school, where it is used as an example of a simple Mendelian trait with a simple dominant ...

Genetic diseases and genetically mixed populations can help researchers understand human diversity and human origins according to a physical anthropologist.

Quill: In biology classes, we learn that Gregor Mendel’s experiments breeding pea plants in the mid-19th century taught us that inherited traits are delivered to offspring on pairs of genes, one ...

The traits that Mendel chose to measure in plants had relatively simple genetics in terms of the one-to-one relationship of genes to outward physical characters.