In what is now Shandong, eastern China, researchers have discovered one of the oldest matrilineal societies known to science, ...

Identifying mechanisms of diseases with complex inheritance patterns, such as macular telangiectasia type 2, is challenging. A link between macular telangiectasia type 2 and altered serine metabolism ...

The results obtained in epigenetic studies are changing the way researchers see heredity, as they reveal far more dynamic and complex inheritance patterns than thought in the past by analysis of ...

Understanding inheritance patterns in polyploid crops has long posed technical and financial challenges, particularly in species like tetraploid blueberry. This study introduces a cost-effective, ...

Although schwannomatosis is a genetic condition, the inheritance patterns for this disorder are complex and much less clear than for both NF1 and NF2. Some cases of schwannomatosis are familial, with ...

Cystic fibrosis represents one of the most common inherited genetic disorders affecting people of European descent, touching the lives of approximately 30,000 individuals in the United States alone.

Seven strains of the Central American A1 mating series of Didymium iridis were crossed in all possible combinations. Individual plasmodia were isolated and grown to a stage where total DNA could be ...

A preliminary analysis is presented of the mode of inheritance of patterns of male secondary sex coloration in several wild populations of Lebistes reticulatus in Trinidad. A high proportion of such ...