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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Parkinson's disease has been getting increased attention in the media, but misinformation abounds. Here, a Parkinson's expert ...

A bidirectional relationship exists between inflammatory bowel disease and type 1 diabetes, which warrants heightened ...

In southern Australia there can often be an impression that fertility traits are well understood, with clear benchmarks ...

Environmental DNA, also known as eDNA, is genetic material shed from animals and plants that scientists can use to tell what kinds of organisms are living in an environment. However, scientists ...