A longstanding mystery in Parkinson's disease research has been why some individuals carrying pathogenic variants that increase their risk of PD go on to develop the disease, while others who also ...

Recently approved gene therapies offer patients one-time, potentially curative treatments for genetic diseases such as sickle ...

Bioinformaticians have established that the genes in bacterial genomes are arranged in a meaningful order. They describe that the genes are arranged by function: If they become increasingly important ...

With 80% of rare diseases having a genetic cause, getting a head start on genetic testing for infants can be the key to an ...

The Hidradenitis Suppurativa Genetics Consortium shares our findings on the genetic links between HS and inborn errors of ...

Meet the current Hidradenitis Suppurativa Genetics Consortium members dedicated to advancing dermatological research.

A seminal study by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and their collaborators in the United Kingdom, ...

The biological research of UC Santa Cruz's Needhi Bhalla to determine the molecular motions at the heart of heredity has yielded a new discovery: The proper transfer of genetic materials depends on ...

Mitochondrial diseases, arising from mutations in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), are a diverse group of disorders that lead to ...