A significant number of multiple myeloma patients may have an inherited but previously unrecognized risk of developing the disease—a type of blood cancer that affects plasma cells. That's the finding ...

A study involving up to 1.14 million people identified 1,260 genetic variants linked to personality traits such as ...

Parents pass their genes down to their kids, with a child inheriting about 50% of their genome from each parent. But there is another kind of genetic code known as the epigenome that can also be ...

Introduction Rapid advances in whole-exome sequencing (WES) have enabled large-scale detection of pathogenic variants.

DIFFERENCES between individuals are usually put down to variations in their genes. But altering the activity of a gene can make just as much difference as changing its sequence. The task of regulating ...