An analysis of two large cohort studies finds that carriers of disease-causing variants within genes for three ...

Researchers at VIB and Antwerp University have identified a major genetic risk factor for a rare form of frontotemporal dementia. The discovery, published today in Nature Genetics, provides a ...

Researchers identify a repeat expansion in the GOLGA8A gene as a major genetic driver for a rare, early-onset form of frontotemporal dementia.

Learn about genetic studies of cognition risks related to Alzheimer's disease in in Mayo Clinic's Precision Medicine in Neurodegeneration Lab led by Nilufer Ertekin-Taner, M.D., Ph.D.

Many MS genetic risk factors are shared across ancestral backgrounds, but European-focused studies may miss others, per a study.

Massive Swedish study of over two million people reveals that genetic risk for mental illness often points toward ...

A new study published in Neurology, led by Queen Mary University of London, has revealed that people of South Asian, African ...

Genetic testing can play an important role in identifying patients at risk for malignant hyperthermia (MH), guided by ...

Statistics that quantify a person’s predisposition to diseases such as diabetes and cancer can be reverse-engineered to reveal the underlying genetic data, prompting privacy concerns ...

Koala populations with low genetic diversity are actually recovering by "reshuffling" their genes to remove harmful mutations ...