A collaborative team of scientists led by Mayo Clinic's Center for Individualized Medicine has discovered 15 additional genetic mutations in the KCNK9 gene that cause a neurodevelopmental syndrome.

We all carry two copies of each non-sex chromosome, and thus, two copies of most genes. For simplicity's sake, it's easy to think that half of the genes we express come from mom and half come from dad ...

Hereditary diseases as well as cancers and cardiovascular diseases may be associated with a phenomenon known as genomic imprinting, in which only the maternally or paternally inherited gene is active.

Madrid, Spain: New research indicates that attempts to mature ovarian follicles in the laboratory may hit a stumbling block unless better 'growing' conditions can be identified. A French team[1] of ...

In Mendelian inheritance patterns, you receive one version of a gene, called an allele, from each parent. These alleles can be dominant or recessive. Non-Mendelian genetics don’t completely follow ...