Mayo Clinic researchers report encouraging early results from an experimental therapy targeting the genetic cause of a rare ...

The inherited mutation substantially increases the chance of developing lung cancer, including in people who don't smoke.

Smoking is one of the biggest contributors to lung cancer, but anywhere from 10-20% of cases in the U.S. each year are diagnosed in people who never smoked. In a new study published in Science, ...

Lung cancer is so closely associated with smoking that people who have never smoked may assume their risk is extremely low.

A large international study of cancer genetics in house cats has uncovered striking similarities between feline and human ...

Genetic factor analysis uses genome-wide association summary statistics to identify shared polygenic factors underlying patterns of cross-trait genetic associations, while automatically determining ...

Scientists have discovered how mutations in a specific gene drive the rare developmental disorder Weaver syndrome, which is marked by intellectual disability and overgrowth and predisposes people with ...

Neurogeneticists have discovered a novel genetic mutation and associated buildup of toxic proteins in the brain -- a type of buildup distinct from amyloid or tau, proteins that have long been the ...

Scientists have identified a genetic mutation that helps protect the brain function of animals that live in high-altitude, low-oxygen environments. This mutation has provided new insights into how ...

Radiation-induced mutation is unlikely to have induced genetic differences between dog populations in Chornobyl (or Chernobyl) City and the nearby Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), according to a ...

Human cells usually contain two copies of most genes, one of which comes from the mother while the other comes from the father. It's long been thought that usually these two copies, or alleles of ...

Salicornia is a halophytic flowering plants in the family Amaranthaceae. Here, the authors report chromosome-scale genome assemblies for six Salicornia species and reveal subgenome diversity, species ...