A recent study of a million people with 14 psychiatric disorders showed these disorders fell into five genetic clusters.

The findings one day could allow people with multiple mental health conditions to be treated with a single therapy, ...

Researchers at UCLA Health have found that a person's risk of developing psychotic-like experiences may be influenced by both childhood attention problems and their genetic makeup. The findings, ...

Scientists discovered that aging DNA repeats expand at wildly different speeds—and in some people, the consequences can be devastating. A sweeping genetic study drawing on data from more than 900,000 ...

What is preimplantation genetic diagnosis? Preimplantation genetic diagnosis refers to the testing of embryos for genetic disorders prior to their implantation in the uterus. This technology is very ...

The causes of autism spectrum disorder are poorly understood; some studies have indicated that there are genetic links, but that doesn’t explain every autism case. Scientists have now found that a ...

When the Human Genome Project was completed back in 2003, its top researcher Dr. Francis Collins, now the head of the National Institutes of Health, referred to it as “the first draft of the human ...

Genetic problems cause about 14% of cerebral palsy cases, and many of the implicated genes control the wiring of brain circuits during early fetal development, new research shows. The largest genetic ...

With genetic rescue, introducing unrelated individuals from another population can alleviate these genetic problems." "It allows natural selection to increase the amount of beneficial genetic material ...

State Sen. Danny Burgess and state Rep. Adam Anderson have filed legislation that would address a shortage of genetic ...