In addition, for centuries, it has often been thought that some traits acquired during the lifetime of an individual can also be passed on to the next generations.

Introduction: How Is Genetic Information Passed between Organisms? Drosophila melanogaster. Inheritance is the passing of traits from parents to offspring.

While we inherit genes from both parents, certain traits are more strongly influenced by paternal genetics. From the way you look to aspects of your health, your father’s DNA plays a major role ...

A new study published in Nature provides evidence that some genetic traits are shaped not just by which variant a person ...

“There’s this alternate inheritance mechanism on top of DNA,” Eroglu said in a press statement. “Could we discover something that, in fact, doesn’t change sex but changes some other traits?

It is no secret that people are often drawn to romantic partners who seem similar to themselves. This tendency, called ...

To evaluate the role of dominance effects in human traits, Duncan Palmer and colleagues used data from the UK Biobank to systematically examine common genetic variation across 1,060 traits in a ...

Dermatoglyphic traits in a sample of twins were analyzed to estimate the resemblance between MZ and DZ twins and to evaluate the mode of inheritance by using the maximum likelihood-based Variance ...

The concept of epigenetic inheritance has long been controversial. Some researchers hope that new data on cross-generational effects of environmental exposures will help settle the debate.

When geneticists create mice with special traits, there is no way to be sure that they will be inherited by the offspring. But a new genetic tool called a gene drive may fix the problem.