Genetic testing can help doctors diagnose some neurological disorders, such as Huntington’s disease. It can also provide insights into a person’s risk of future health conditions. Genetic testing ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Recent breakthroughs in genetics research may have uncovered new genes underlying common psychiatric disorders. Schizophrenia and ...

Genome-wide association studies identify genetic overlap among disorders, providing evidence that their distinctions may be misleading One major difference between psychiatric disorders and purely ...

Neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) include a broad spectrum of phenotypes spanning from intellectual disability (ID) to developmental delay (DD) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD). As ...

An international collective of researchers is delivering new insights into why having multiple psychiatric disorders is the norm rather than the exception. In a study published today in the journal ...

Glycosylation is one of the most ubiquitous and essential post-translational modifications (PTMs) in biological systems. The majority of cell-surface and secreted proteins are glycosylated [1], ...

A National Institutes of Health study will evaluate whether to screen tens of thousands of healthy infants for genetic ...

The genetic roots of a disease or disorder do not always grow into clear-cut, easily diagnosed clinical features. Even if a parent and child have the same genetic marker implicated in an outcome, such ...

Researchers have uncovered shared genetic pathways that link multiple psychiatric disorders. These new findings have the potential to change the way psychiatric disorders are diagnosed and treated, ...

Genetic variants can take many different forms. For example, a single letter of the DNA alphabet might be miscopied, like a typo; or whole words, sentences or even chapters can be deleted or inserted ...

In Mendelian inheritance patterns, you receive one version of a gene, called an allele, from each parent. These alleles can be dominant or recessive. Non-Mendelian genetics don’t completely follow ...

Your genes code for all your traits. Some genes are dominant and expressed if you receive a copy from one parent. Others are recessive and only apparent if you receive a copy from both parents. Genes ...