The association between parents' BMI and their children's BMI during childhood may be primarily due to genetic inheritance ...

The association between parents' body mass index (BMI) and their children's childhood BMI may be primarily due to genetic ...

According to a new large-scale study, genetics may explain most of the parent-child BMI link.

The link between parents' body mass index (BMI) and their children's BMI in childhood is driven largely by genetic ...

Lamia Wahba is studying how information outside the genetic code can pass between generations and what that means for evolution and disease. When we think about genetic inheritance, we usually leap to ...

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 / ...

A new study has provided new insights into the the genetic overlap among some psychiatric disorders, and can help explain why it’s not uncommon for several of these disorders to arise in the same ...