For many people, discomfort during a medical injection or a long tattoo session feels especially intense. According to new ...

A new analysis of soldiers attempting to join the U.S. Army Special Forces suggests that specific genetic variations play a ...

A wide range of mental disorders share common genetic roots, scientists have found, paving the way for simpler and cheaper ...

Sometimes, in genetics, two wrongs do make a right. A research team has recently shown that two harmful genetic variants, ...

Genetic variation underpins the diversity observed within and among species, while genomic analysis provides the framework to unravel the complexity of these variations. Advances in high‐throughput ...

In a comprehensive Genomic Press Invited Expert Review, researchers from the University of Haifa have synthesized cutting-edge findings on Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS), revealing how this complex ...

Clinicians' ability to diagnose and treat chronic diseases is limited by scientific uncertainty around factors contributing to disease risk. A study published September 2 nd in the open-access journal ...

Birds have a dazzling display of patterns, from muted colors to vivid and striking hues. For a long time, scientists believed that the evolution of these traits was a slow process that took place when ...

Chong’s study, “Deciphering the exact breakpoints of structural variations using long sequencing reads with DeBreak,” was recently published in Nature Communications. UAB researchers have developed a ...

The same prescription that transforms one person’s life may barely help another — or cause serious side effects. This frustrating reality stems from complex interactions between genetics, age, sex, ...

The literature presented in this review does not indicate a clinically relevant relationship between genetic variations in the VEGF system and the risk of CRC. Hence, these markers will probably not ...