For more than a century, heredity has been framed through the tidy logic of Mendel’s pea plants: traits pass from parent to ...

A new @HopkinsMedicine study of mice reveals that epigenetic marks can be inherited in ways that break the century-long ...

Dextrocardia, a condition where the heart is located on the right side of the thoracic cavity, occurs in approximately 0.83 of 10,000 pregnancies and is often associated with complex congenital heart ...

Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is an eye condition that can be genetic. In this way, people usually need to inherit two copies of a genetic variation that causes RP, one coming from each parent. RP may ...

In Mendelian inheritance patterns, you receive one version of a gene, called an allele, from each parent. These alleles can be dominant or recessive. Non-Mendelian genetics don’t completely follow ...

This study is led by Prof. Hongyan Wang (Institute of Reproduction and Development, Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital, Institute of Metabolism and Integrative Biology, Fudan University), Prof. Qihua ...