Scientists say that 55 percent of differences in human lifespan are due to genetic makeup, much more than previously believed ...

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a public health challenge that affects more than 800 million people worldwide. 1 CKD can be caused by a variety of disease processes. Many causes are difficult to ...

Familial Alzheimer’s disease is a rare, inherited form of Alzheimer’s that usually develops earlier than other forms of the disease. It’s due to specific genetic variants that tend to run in families.

Most mutations that cause disease by swapping one amino acid out for another do so by making the protein less stable, according to a major study of human protein variants that was published in Nature ...

Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) occurs as a result of genetic changes on the X chromosome. If someone has a gene change that can cause DMD, their children may inherit that change. DMD is a ...