Researchers at Columbia University reveal how monoallelic expression (MAE) shapes genetic disease outcomes. By favoring one ...

Is it nature or nurture? Here are some seemingly random things that aren't random at all—they're inherited traits.

New work by Columbia researchers has turned a textbook principle of genetics on its head and revealed why some people who ...

A variant of PCSK9, a gene involved in raising cholesterol, may spur metastasis. An approved antibody might stop it.

If you have an inherited intolerance to alcohol, a mutated gene could be the culprit. An at-home DNA test could detect ...

Genetic variants that determine the shape of your teeth—including a gene inherited from Neanderthals—have been identified by a team co-led by UCL researchers. In a paper published in Current ...

A study reveals that the majority of genes transmitted to us by Neanderthals through hybridization between the two species ...

The EDAR gene, previously linked to incisor shape in East Asian people, also influences the width of all teeth, according to ...

Some people have genes that mutate during their lifetimes for different reasons, and those changes can raise their chances of lung cancer. Other people inherit changed genes from their parents.

Inherited and acquired lung diseases are the subject of a disproportionately large fraction of the approved human gene therapy clinical protocols because a number of these diseases have well ...

If children learn their language primarily from their mother, language transmission might follow the evolutionary patterns of their maternally inherited genes (such as X chromosomes and ...