Environmental factors such as lifestyle and the medications you take influence the effects your genes have on your body — and can clarify how diseases develop.

A new rapid blood test for newborns could potentially detect genetic mutations linked to thousands of rare diseases all at ...

Discover how cystic fibrosis genetics affect inheritance patterns and symptom. Learn about CFTR mutations, testing options, ...

Scientists say they've put together a molecular toolkit that could be used to treat a variety of brain diseases, possibly ...

For example, many fetuses ... Their enzyme levels are usually enough, so they may have no symptoms of a genetic metabolic disorder. But the child who inherits two defective gene copies cannot ...

Depression and anxiety, for example, can coexist and share symptoms ... from those that only have roles in only one disorder.

Prader-Willi syndrome is a rare genetic disease that causes poor feeding in infancy but later triggers insatiable hunger.

Examples of genetic defects that affect the sorting of proteins to vesicles include inclusion-cell disease (caused by a defective mannose-6-phosphate recognition marker on ligands), combined ...

It can result from medications or illness. Or it may be present from birth -- a genetic disorder known as primary immune deficiency. Examples include: Drug-induced immune deficiency. Medicines ...

A new study proves that a type of genetic element called 'introners' are the mechanism by which many introns spread within and between species, also providing evidence of eight instances in which ...