Scientists say that 55 percent of differences in human lifespan are due to genetic makeup, much more than previously believed ...

India, March 17 -- Selfish chromosomes bias genetic inheritance by manipulating the overdrive (Ovd) gene, a natural sperm quality control checkpoint.

His method of locating genes in human DNA allowed researchers to find disease-causing genes, and later to map the entire, ...

In Mendelian inheritance patterns, you receive one version of a gene, called an allele, from each parent. These alleles can be dominant or recessive. Non-Mendelian genetics don’t completely follow ...

Forty years ago, a postdoctoral researcher named James McGrath who would go on to spend more than three decades as a clinical geneticist and research scientist at Yale, made a discovery that advanced ...

An analysis of 2.2 million people reveals both shared and substance-specific genetic pathways for addiction risk, showing ...