New research reveals how complex interactions between genetic variants can explain different outcomes in disorders like ...

Jan. 14 -- WEDNESDAY, Jan. 13 (HealthDay News) -- Two seemingly unrelated problems might share a genetic component that may make some people more likely to suffer from both migraine and depression, ...

Seven years ago, I took a bet with Charles Murray about whether we’d basically understand the genetics of intelligence by now.

An international team of researchers led by Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the University of Copenhagen in Denmark has pinpointed some of the reasons why obesity does not affect everyone ...

The obesity rate has been steadily climbing and so have scientific efforts to understand why. A new study, published in ...

Despite widespread misconceptions, eating disorders aren’t a choice, they’re serious, potentially life-threatening conditions. While social and environmental factors do influence someone’s risk of ...

How much an infant cries is largely steered by their genetics and there is probably not much that parents can do about it. This has been shown in a new Swedish twin study from Uppsala University and ...