A genetic breakthrough reveals why mental health conditions often occur together. New research identifies five disorder ...

Over the next two years, the planned funding will be allocated to projects that have received some FDA feedback as well as emerging efforts.

Researchers have discovered that eight different psychiatric conditions share a common genetic basis. A study published in ...

A sweeping new study of psychiatric and genetic records has the potential to change treatment for millions of psychiatric patients.

A study that analyzed the genetic code of a quarter of a million U.S. volunteers found more than 275 million entirely new variants that may help explain why some groups are more prone to disease than ...

AMD is one of the rarest documented genetic disorders. Only around 10 million people in the world carry the altered NPR2 gene, and of those, just 3,500 are estimated to display the physiological ...

Researchers identified the earliest case of a genetic disease with the help of DNA: ...

Heritability isn't a fixed biological property but a measure that depends entirely on the population and circumstances you're ...

From dwarfism to overgrowth, scientists unravel the complex genetic blueprint that determines how tall—or short—we become. Review: The genetic basis of human height. Image Credit: XiXinXing / ...

Is Obesity Genetic or Environmental? Get All the Details This article was reviewed by Lynn Marie Morski, MD, JD. Key ...

Katie Bergstrom is a licensed, certified genetic counselor with a specialty in pediatric hematology/oncology. She works at the Cancer and Blood Disorders Center at Seattle Children's Hospital. Katie ...