Scientists at Pacific Northwest Research Institute (PNRI) have overturned a long-held belief in genetics: that inheriting two ...

In a groundbreaking study published in the in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), scientists at Pacific ...

A research team led by Zhiping Weng, Ph.D., and Jill Moore, Ph.D."18, at UMass Chan Medical School, has nearly tripled the ...

A lzheimer’s disease, the most common cause of dementia, has complex genetic and environmental causes. A new study that ...

Rare inherited genetic variants significantly increase familial lung cancer risk, offering new targets for early detection.

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

One of the leading triggers for multiple sclerosis (MS) is an infection with the Epstein-Barr virus. However, certain gene variants also play an important role.

Rare telomere and non-telomere genetic variants significantly affect survival in IPF patients, with non-additive effects on common risk variants. Polygenic risk scores (PRS-IPF) may play a crucial ...

Understanding the genetic mechanisms linking genome variations, such as single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), to phenotypes ...

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

“This gap is especially limiting in longevity research, where admixed supercentenarians may harbor unique protective variants ...