The blueprint of who we are begins with the genes passed down from our parents. While these inherited traits give us our eye color and height, they can also contain instructions that increase our risk ...

Scientists use tools like Punnett squares to predict how traits are passed from parents to offspring. Features like freckles and eye color are examples of these traits. Learn how scientists use plant ...

Researchers have identified inherited genetic variants that may predict the loss of one copy of a woman's two X chromosomes as she ages, a phenomenon known as mosaic loss of chromosome X, or mLOX.

Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) occurs as a result of genetic changes on the X chromosome. If someone has a gene change that can cause DMD, their children may inherit that change. DMD is a ...

Forty years ago, a postdoctoral researcher named James McGrath who would go on to spend more than three decades as a clinical geneticist and research scientist at Yale, made a discovery that advanced ...

Discover how MC1R gene variants and lateralization genes overlap to create the rare phenotype of left handed redheads, including frequency and developmental notes.

Introduction Rapid advances in whole-exome sequencing (WES) have enabled large-scale detection of pathogenic variants.