Genetic data show that 14 psychiatric diagnoses cluster into five families of shared risk, explaining why conditions like depression and anxiety often occur together.

For Lisa Hawker, getting a diagnosis of her daughter Jaydi's rare genetic condition was life-saving. Jaydi has a rare form of dwarfism which affects around 50 known people across the world. Her early ...

We know that the genes we're born with contribute to the risk of psychiatric disorders during our lifetimes, and a new study shows there is significantly more biological overlap across these ...

Thanks to advances in imaging and diagnostic technologies, clinicians can now detect many genetic disorders in the womb, ...

A multinational collaboration co-led by the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, in collaboration with Rockefeller University, and Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, has uncovered a ...

The development of many psychiatric disorders, including depression, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, is known to be in great part influenced by genetics. Past research has identified various genes ...

On World Rare Disease Day, we take a look at Pompe disease - a rare genetic disorder caused by a deficiency of the GAA enzyme, leading to glycogen buildup in muscles. It results in progressive muscle ...

Rapidly testing hundreds of thousands of DNA sequences, scientists identified specific genetic variations contributing to blood pressure, cholesterol, and blood sugar.

An Ice Age double burial in Italy has yielded a stunning genetic revelation. DNA from a mother and daughter who lived over 12,000 years ago shows that the younger had a rare inherited growth disorder, ...

Researchers identified over 400 genetic variants linked to autoimmune hypothyroidism, separating immune and thyroid-specific ...

From dwarfism to overgrowth, scientists unravel the complex genetic blueprint that determines how tall—or short—we become. Review: The genetic basis of human height. Image Credit: XiXinXing / ...