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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

The finding—a first example of inherited genes driving metastatic progression in breast cancer—also highlights a new therapeutic opportunity, suggesting that PCSK9 inhibitors, originally developed for ...

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

“The gene changes in the children could only be ... the transmission of trauma across generations through “epigenetic inheritance” – the idea that genetic changes caused by the environment ...