Scientists at UT Southwestern Medical Center have traced a rare premature aging condition in a young Malaysian man to a ...

March 25 (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Denali Therapeutics' treatment for a rare genetic ...

A new study by UCLA Health published in Cell presents a major advancement in the future of personalized medicine by ...

Understand genetic kidney diseases, their early warning signs, family risk factors, and when dialysis or transplant may be ...

Many psychiatric disorders are more biologically related than previously understood, having more genetic similarities than differences, a new study shows. More research is needed to understand how ...

Genetic risk in mental illness is not equal, with some disorders highly distinct and others sharing broad inherited vulnerability.

"It's a slow-moving train wreck," Mike Graglia says about his 12-year-old son Tony's rare genetic disease with no cure. Caused by a tiny fluke of nature—a mutation in a gene known as a SYNGAP1—the non ...

As modern medicine leaps forward in its ability to quickly and more affordably run genetic disease risk tests, ethical ...

“Ultimately, we'll help the people we discriminate against if we try to understand more about them; genetics will lead to a world where there is a sympathy for the underdog.”—James D. Watson A recent ...

Researchers analyze 2.2 million genomes to show that addiction risk is primarily driven by broad genes affecting brain wiring ...