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 ...

Scientists have long known that the DNA code in genes is not the only way to pass genetic traits from parents to offspring. "Epigenetic" marks—chemical modifications to DNA that don't change the DNA ...

Doctronic reports that while allergies have a genetic component, their inheritance is complex and influenced by multiple ...

The question of how the effects of genetic variants combine to produce continuous traits, such as height and blood pressure, as well as complex diseases, including diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease, ...