Our understanding of mental illness is undergoing a major evolution, driven by recent advances in genetics. Rather than ...

New research bolsters the idea that the risk for psychiatric and developmental disorders isn’t specific to particular conditions — and that could mean new opportunities to treat mental illnesses that ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A test screening for three common genetic disorders may be cost-effective in adults aged younger than 40 years.

New research has found that men who carry a common genetic variant are twice as likely to develop dementia in their lifetime compared to women. New research has found that men who carry a common ...

The results of new research headed by a team at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis suggest that a common genetic signature may increase an individual’s risk of developing substance ...

Aortic stenosis is a narrowing of the aortic valve, which connects the heart to the rest of the body. It affects millions of ...

Many human diseases have a genetic component to them. There are over 6,000 genetic disorders, many of which are fatal or severely debilitating. A genetic disease is caused by a mutation in DNA and can ...

Across the globe, most people are right-handed. On average, only around 10 percent of people are left-handed. Despite more than 100 years of research on the origins of left-handedness, it is still not ...