Genomic imprinting results in the differential expression of genes, depending on which allele is inherited from the mother and which from the father. The effects of such differential gene expression ...

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 ...

(Embargoed) CHAPEL HILL -- New research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill offers an important contribution to a new wave of thinking in genetics: the idea that not all human disease ...

We all carry two copies of each non-sex chromosome, and thus, two copies of most genes. For simplicity's sake, it's easy to think that half of the genes we express come from mom and half come from dad ...

Hereditary diseases as well as cancers and cardiovascular diseases may be associated with a phenomenon known as genomic imprinting, in which only the maternally or paternally inherited gene is active.

The nature-nurture relationship has attracted fascination throughout history. Roman mythology tells us that in 753 B.C. Romulus slew his twin brother Remus, in a fight over who would become king of ...

Cutting-edge DNA mapping technology identified new genetic information that can help researchers decipher more genetic diseases, a new study found. The research will be presented at the Pediatric ...

Epigenetics and Archetypal Activation in Psychopathology Epigenetics offers a compelling explanation for how archetypes may be encoded and expressed, as well as how their distortions can arise.