A recent study finds that certain psychiatric disorders have considerable genetic overlap. But these genes aren’t the whole ...

A new CRISPR approach can control genes without cutting DNA, opening a safer path for treating genetic diseases. A newly ...

This year saw notable progress in head and neck cancers, Huntington's disease, personalized genetic therapy, and heart ...

An analysis of DNA from millions of individuals has identified shared genetic pathways across psychiatric disorders, findings ...

An international collective of researchers is delivering new insights into why having multiple psychiatric disorders is the norm rather than the exception. In a study published today in the journal ...

As newborn screening and rapid DNA sequencing become routine, we are poised to catch and treat inherited diseases at their earliest stages. Today, we can intervene in the first days or weeks of life.

Genetic testing can help doctors diagnose some neurological disorders, such as Huntington’s disease. It can also provide insights into a person’s risk of future health conditions. Genetic testing ...

When a child inherits a genetic condition, it often means both parents unknowingly carried genetic variations that, when combined, led to the disease. Modern genetic testing now allows families to ...

Rare genetic disorders are typically caused by a variant in a single gene. It is estimated that there are over 7000 such conditions, meaning that although individually rare, they are collectively ...

Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical said on Monday that late-stage studies showed its drug for a type of genetic bone disease failed to ...

A new study challenges what's long been assumed about genetic variants thought to always cause inherited blindness.