A massive genomic study of over 1 million cases found that shared risk across 14 psychiatric disorders is reduced to 5 ...

Autism spectrum disorder, also known simply as autism or ASD, is a developmental disorder that can vary widely from one patient to another. It can affect how people behave, socialize, or communicate ...

Sickle cell disease (SCD) is an inherited disorder that affects over 100,000 people in the United States, according to the Sickle Cell Disease Association of America, of that number, the Centers for ...

The same amino acid can be encoded by anywhere from one to six different strings of letters in the genetic code. Andrzej Wojcicki/Science Photo Library via Getty Images Nearly all life, from bacteria ...

Published in Genome Biology, the research team analyzed genomic data from over 3,000 individuals in the general population and found that about seven percent of STRs in the human genome show ...

A new University of California San Diego School of Medicine study offers a unified biological model to explain how genetic ...

A new computational approach can uncover gene interactions that influence complex human traits. Using large genome-trait datasets, researchers found that genetic background significantly changes how ...