The ability of different genetic variants—changes to one or more building blocks of DNA—to cause disease, and to what extent, ...

Hiroshima University researchers have developed a practical framework to identify candidate pathogenic variants hidden among ...

A quarter of North Korean defectors from regions near the northeastern Punggye-ri nuclear test site have shown chromosome mutations possibly attributable to exposure to radioactivity, data showed ...

Screening entire populations for breast and ovarian cancer gene mutations could prevent millions more breast and ovarian cancer cases across the world compared to current clinical practice, according ...

University of Virginia School of Medicine scientists have used a next-generation form of gene editing to fix the underlying cause of a severe form of epilepsy in lab mice.

Researchers at Cornell University have developed a powerful new genetic toolkit that allows scientists to study how genes ...

SEOUL, March 23 (Yonhap) -- A quarter of North Korean defectors from regions near the northeastern Punggye-ri nuclear test site have shown chromosome mutations possibly attributable to exposure to ...