Mendel's famous laws of heredity, established over a century ago, may not be as universal as once thought. A recent study on ...

Scientists have long known that the DNA code in genes is not the only way to pass genetic traits from parents to offspring. "Epigenetic" marks—chemical modifications to DNA that don't change the DNA ...

Scientists found that some inherited traits can bypass the traditional rules of genetics, revealing a surprising new layer of ...

For more than a century, heredity has been framed through the tidy logic of Mendel’s pea plants: traits pass from parent to offspring by fixed genetic rules. But a new mouse study suggests that ...

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 ...

We developed a genome-wide allele-specific methylation framework using long-read sequencing to characterize intergenerational epigenetic inheritance in mice. This framework revealed non-Mendelian ...

Research on Tourette’s indicates that the condition is strongly influenced by inherited genetic factors, with environmental factors also contributing to its development. Tourette syndrome is a ...

The blueprint of who we are begins with the genes passed down from our parents. While these inherited traits give us our eye color and height, they can also contain instructions that increase our risk ...

Primary immunodeficiency diseases (PIDs) are monogenic inborn errors of immunity (IEIs) and categorized into 10 groups. There are currently 555 IEIs caused by inherited defects in one or more ...

A team of geneticists and animal welfare specialists from the U.K. and one from the U.S. has identified the genetic mutation responsible for a newly discovered cat coat color pattern in Finland. In ...

Identifying the mutations that underly unusual sleep traits can provide insights into the biology of sleep and circadian function in humans. In the 1990s, a woman approached sleep neurologist ...