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 ...

The COVID-19 pandemic gave us tremendous perspective on how wildly symptoms and outcomes can vary between patients experiencing the same infection. How can two people infected by the same pathogen ...

A great part of living in the 21st century is that if you have a device that connects to the internet, you have access to hundreds, if not thousands of experts who are often eager to share in-depth ...

Advances in human genetics have enabled the investigation of the genetic architecture underlying numerous complex traits. Many publicly available databases establish a binary relationship between ...

Are you mostly a product of the genes you inherit or your experiences in life? This question intrigues many people, including addiction researchers. In this post, I provide an overview of key research ...

(MEMPHIS, Tenn. – May 28, 2025) Physicians caring for survivors of childhood cancer later in life should be aware that survivors’ genetics, in addition to their lifesaving cancer treatment, contribute ...