Our understanding of mental illness is undergoing a major evolution, driven by recent advances in genetics. Rather than ...

We know that the genes we're born with contribute to the risk of psychiatric disorders during our lifetimes, and a new study ...

An analysis of DNA from millions of individuals has identified shared genetic pathways across psychiatric disorders, findings ...

An international collective of researchers is delivering new insights into why having multiple psychiatric disorders is the ...

Less than 30% of people with certain genetic variants go blind, despite the faulty genes previously being thought to cause ...

The CRISPR molecular scissors have the potential to revolutionize the treatment of genetic diseases. This is because they can be used to correct specific defective sections of the genome.

Analysis of more than one million people shows that mental-health disorders fall into five clusters, each of them linked to a ...

Researchers from the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium (PGC) report that most genetic influences on mental illness are shared across diagnostic categories, revealing a more interconnected biological ...

A new study has found that some patients with motor neuron disease and dementia share genetic mutations. A collaboration of researchers across institutions in Australia has discovered that the rare ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The expression of GSDMB was high in children with a 17q21 genetic variant. These children did not have ...

(AP) -- After an emotional debate, German lawmakers voted Thursday to allow a procedure that looks for genetic disorders in embryos before they are implanted in the womb.