A new study finds the genetic backgrounds of people in the U.S. are "highly complex" and may differ from their self-defined ...

A large government study published Thursday shows more definitively than ever before that Americans’ self-reported race is a ...

Werner syndrome (WS), a rare genetic disorder that causes accelerated aging. From their twenties, patients develop gray hair, ...

Blood clots can form in both arteries and veins. However, the reasons behind them differ, as do the consequences and the ...

Genetic carrier screening is conducted to determine if an asymptomatic person is a carrier for a potentially inheritable pathogenic gene.

To Shakespeare's Hamlet, we humans are "the paragon of animals." But recent advances in genetics are suggesting that humans ...

Researchers discovered that the absence of one critical gene made the plague less virulent, and may have allowed two major ...

Screening can now determine their risk for an ever-growing list of conditions — including ones we can’t do much about.

Werner syndrome (WS) is a rare genetic disorder that causes premature aging and serious complications. In the first clinical ...

Werner syndrome (WS) is a rare genetic disorder that causes premature aging and serious complications. In the first clinical ...