New research helps explain why disease-associated genetic variants can lead to variable clinical outcomes, influenced both by the patterns of secondary variants, or genetic background, and by how ...

Scientists report adaptive divergence in cryptic color pattern is underlain by two distinct, complex chromosomal rearrangements, where millions of bases of DNA were flipped backwards and moved from ...

The effects of a genetic brain disorder are not necessarily permanent. For centuries, the genetic lottery has shaped our health and our futures. In Destiny's Child No Longer: Rewriting Genetic Fate, ...

Autism spectrum disorder is a complex neurodevelopmental condition with challenges that can vary widely in how they affect each individual. But there’s been plenty of misinformation in the news and on ...

For decades, geneticists have known that most common illnesses are not caused by a single rogue gene but by intricate ...

Genetically predicted morning cortisol levels did not appear to increase the likelihood of having ADHD. Similarly, a genetic predisposition for ADHD did not seem to cause alterations in morning ...

A new genetic mapping strategy reveals how entire networks of genes work together to cause disease, filling in the missing ...

Deep learning models have shown great potential in predicting and engineering functional enzymes and proteins. Does this prowess extend to other fields of biology as well? Contrary to expectations, a ...

Source: Alison Escalante, ChatGPT / OpenAI Conversations about autism are often complicated by the fact that autism spectrum disorder (ASD) looks and feels different in different people. Because of ...

A new study from the NIH’s All of Us program is shaking up long-held assumptions by revealing that genetic ancestry rarely aligns with racial labels — and that the interplay between biology and ...