Imagine the brain as an atlas of possibilities and risks. Genetic variants linked to depression affect its shape, subtly ...

HERSHEY, Pa. — Disease development is often shaped by genetics, with how much or how little a gene is expressed influencing disease risk. While advances in technology and sequencing methods has led to ...

Potentially more than 90% of Alzheimer's disease cases would not occur without the contribution of a single gene (APOE), ...

Up to 5% of Americans may carry genetic variants associated with cancer risk, according to a cross-sectional analysis.The ...

A common genetic variant is linked to a doubled dementia risk for older men, a recent analysis in Neurology suggests. The study used data from Aspirin in Reducing Events in the Elderly (ASPREE), which ...

Thousands of single changes in the nucleotides that make up the human genome have been associated with an increased risk of developing cancer. But until now, it's not been clear which are directly ...

Screening large genetic datasets can uncover harbingers of neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease. For AD, most older genome-wide association studies have relied heavily on ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The 15 genetic variants assessed in the study accounted for 0.4% of the variation in OUD risk. A new machine ...

A newly identified and rare genetic variant slows the growth of mutated blood stem cells and reduces the risk of leukemia.