A simple, though not necessarily easy, test may help predict how many years a person has left, according to exercise researchers who have been tracking thousands of middle-aged and older people for ...

In a recent study published in the journal Nature, an international team of researchers developed a novel approach to infer parent-of-origin (PofO) of alleles without parental genomes. Genome-wide ...

Maturity-Onset Diabetes of the Young (MODY) 5 is a rare genetic form of diabetes caused by mutations in the hepatocyte nuclear factor 1-beta (HNF1B) gene. MODY 5 accounts for approximately 2–6% of all ...

Cystic fibrosis represents one of the most common inherited genetic disorders affecting people of European descent, touching the lives of approximately 30,000 individuals in the United States alone.