FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- A Valley teen is taking action to raise awareness for an important cause, but she needs your help. Laci Wright is a 15-year-old on a mission. "I wanted to help raise awareness ...

Down syndrome is an easily recognized, well-known genetic disorder. But there is another genetic disorder that even more babies are born with and it is rarely talked about. It is called 22q11.2 ...

The human brain begins to assemble itself shortly after conception as a growing number of brain cells connect to create circuits across the brain. Genes provide the blueprint for construction, but ...

DiGeorge syndrome (DGS; also known as Velo-cardio-facial syndrome) is associated with hemizygous deletion of a region of human chromosome 22q11, causing a range of abnormalities including ...

Two researchers received two-year grants from The Brain & Behavior Research Foundation. Two researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have received Young Investigator Awards from the ...

When I was a child, the doctors told my parents that I would never graduate high school, never hold down a job and never be able to drive. Why? Because I am approximately one out of every 4,000 people ...

Could diagnosing rare genetic disorders one day be as simple as snapping a picture with a smartphone? That’s what a new study suggests. Researchers with the National Institutes of Health’s National ...