Familial epilepsy refers to cases where epilepsy runs in families suggesting a genetic component to the condition ...

Genetics and random environmental factors play a significant role in the development of homosexual behaviour, a new study has said. Published in the scientific journal Archives of Sexual Behavior ...

They found that some cognitive abilities appear to be regulated more by environmental factors than by genetics. "Past ...

A large cohort study by BGI Genomics, published in Cell Genomics, uncovers genetic factors influencing maternal and neonatal ...

Breast cancer risk in young women is rising due to lifestyle, genetic, and environmental factors. Delayed childbirth beyond ...

Lifestyle and environmental factors have been important components of the story, but genetics also predispose individuals to ...

These changes can be influenced by environmental factors, lifestyle choices ... the risk of cancer even in the absence of ...

Researchers are identifying behavioral, environmental and neural factors through which genetic risk for mental health problems is expressed in youth.

For comparison, with no chronic, non-productive cough in the parents, 7 percent of the kids had that type of cough. To put it another way, if a parent had a non-productive cough, the likelihood of ...

Fussy eating is mainly influenced by genes and is a stable trait lasting from toddlerhood to early adolescence, finds a new study led by researchers from UCL (University College London), King's ...

"While genetic factors are the predominant influence for food fussiness, environment also plays a supporting role. "Shared environmental factors, such as sitting down together as a family to eat ...

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) help scientists understand the inheritance patterns of disorders on a global scale. But can we make predictions from these studies? Only a few years ago, a ...