What do your genes have to do with your lifespan?

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The same pathogen can often elicit very different responses from different people. Scientists sought to understand more about what causes these individual differences. They found that both our genomes ...

Medical genetics is the discipline that examines how variation in our DNA underlies health and disease. It spans rare, highly penetrant single-gene disorders and the more complex, multifactorial ...

At Mayo Clinic, cardiologists Peter Noseworthy, M.D., and John Giudicessi, M.D., Ph.D., are uncovering the earliest signs of a genetic heart condition that often strikes without warning. Their work ...

Rare DNA changes are most strongly linked to cognition in early childhood, but the link fades as children age, while common DNA changes show stronger links later in childhood, a new study finds. The ...

A massive new study reveals that different types of intelligence share distinct genetic links with various psychiatric ...