The genetic architecture of common diseases is central to the scientific and clinical goals of human genetics because it directly impacts biology, disease screening, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment ...

Scientists have identified a new detrimental effect of genes that cause inherited diseases, publishing their results today in eLife. Their study suggests that these genes prevent adaptation (or the ...

For decades, the central dogma of molecular biology—DNA makes RNA, RNA makes protein, protein makes phenotype—was the guiding framework for understanding inheritance and disease. This model explained ...

LONDON — A novel mode of inheritance has been discovered that may prompt scientists to re-evaluate the genetic basis of disease. In 21 September Science, Nico Katsanis and colleagues, from the Baylor ...

A gene is a basic unit of heredity, the means by which traits get passed from one generation to the next, and genetics is the study of how these biological traits are inherited. A little over half of ...

Gregor Mendel, an Austrian scientist who lived and conducted much of his most important research in a Czechoslovakian monastery, established the basis of modern genetic science. He experimented on pea ...

ABIOTROPHY of skeletal muscle — that is, degeneration and atrophy after a latent period of apparently normal development and function — is the most obvious common denominator in the group of disorders ...