As a group, carriers of recessive disorders are slightly less healthy and have a reduced chance of having offspring. This disadvantage is greatest for carriers of a recessive gene for intellectual ...

Because of poaching problems, some wildlife authorities have resorted to removing the horns of rhinos to eliminate the reason they’re poached in the first place. As it turns out, evolution came up ...

Scientists identify a rare new genetic form of neonatal diabetes caused by TMEM167A mutations, affecting insulin production, ...

The short answer is your genes. While in the womb, babies (male or female) grow a Müllerian duct. Normally, as girls grow in the womb, this duct develops into female sex organs. In boys, on the other ...

A fisherman in Minnesota has caught a sunfish with a rare genetic mutation that makes its skin golden. Terry Nelson was fishing for sunfish and crappies on Lindstrom Lake, in Chisago County, when he ...

Below are diseases that are often screened for in Jewish couples who are planning to have children because of an elevated risk of carrying a recessive mutation. Researchers so far have identified many ...

Prospective BASECAMP-1 experience in patients with gastrointestinal (GI) cancer: Identifying patients with human leukocyte antigen (HLA) loss of heterozygosity (LOH) for a future therapeutic trial ...

Most mutations that cause disease by swapping one amino acid out for another do so by making the protein less stable, according to a major study of human protein variants that was published in Nature ...

Genetic disorders can occur due to mutations in one gene (monogenic), multiple genes (multifactorial inheritance), and mutation in one or more chromosomes. Point mutations are where one nucleotide in ...

Unstable proteins are the main drivers of many different heritable diseases, according to a new study, including genetic disorders responsible for the formation of cataracts, and different types of ...