Your family health history can help doctors spot medical risks early and shape a more personalized path for your care.

On the pedals of Alberto Stasi's bicycle, in addition to biological material attributed to Chiara Poggi, the RIS of Parma ...

For a long time, so-called satellite DNA was considered largely worthless. Now, ETH Zurich researchers have shown in fruit flies that these repetitive sections of genetic material act as a kind of ...

The authors found that new insertions of engineered L1s were two- to threefold more frequent in the inactive X than in the active X or the autosomes. Among the 35 insertions that arose endogenously ...

The humble Y chromosome may be the smallest chromosome in the mammalian genome (and getting even smaller), but it is mighty: Genes on the Y chromosome are critical for fertility in males. In a new ...

Scientists have taken an important step toward a gene therapy that could one day turn off the extra genetic material that causes Down syndrome (DS). Down syndrome is a genetic condition caused by an ...

Aging men often lose the Y chromosome in a growing number of their cells—and it may be far more dangerous than once believed. This loss has been linked to heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer’s, and ...

The Y chromosome is among the smallest in the human body and carries the fewest genes. Researchers are paying renewed attention to its role in cancer — specifically, what happens when it vanishes.

Men tend to lose the Y chromosome from their cells as they age. But because the Y bears few genes other than for male determination, it was thought this loss would not affect health. But evidence has ...

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