An international collective of researchers is delivering new insights into why having multiple psychiatric disorders is the ...

Less than 30% of people with certain genetic variants go blind, despite the faulty genes previously being thought to cause ...

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

Groundbreaking research at Seattle Children's Hospital provides critical genetic diagnoses for newborns within 48 hours.

A study suggests psychiatric disorders can share the same genetic signatures and that they may stem from shared biological mechanisms.

Analysis of more than one million people shows that mental-health disorders fall into five clusters, each of them linked to a ...

Genetic results from the Deciphering Developmental Disorders (DDD) study have enabled thousands of children with severe developmental disorders to receive better treatment. Thousands of children with ...

The largest study so far into the genetics of chronic fatigue syndrome, or myalgic encephalomyelitis, has implicated 259 ...

Black patients and patients from socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhoods are dramatically under-represented in genetics clinics—often at rates half or less than those of white patients or ...

A large Mayo Clinic study shows that current guidelines fail to detect nearly 90% of people with familial hypercholesterolemia, a common inherited cause of dangerously high cholesterol. Many affected ...

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