The definition of a “rare” disease is based on how often they occur in the population not by whether or not there is a ...

The development of many psychiatric disorders, including depression, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, is known to be in great part influenced by genetics. Past research has identified various genes ...

Psychiatric disorders can share common genetic influences, which means parts of DNA can be at the root of more than one mental condition, new research has found. The study, led by researchers at Texas ...

It took a while for the science to basically catch up to that suspicion.” In these types of “recessive” conditions, the ...

"It's a slow-moving train wreck," Mike Graglia says about his 12-year-old son Tony's rare genetic disease with no cure. Caused by a tiny fluke of nature—a mutation in a gene known as a SYNGAP1—the non ...

Advances in DNA sequencing have revealed something surprising—not everyone with the same genetic change develops the same ...

A new study by researchers at King's College London has split schizophrenia risk into two genetically distinct pathways. One ...

ST. PAUL, Minn., May 25 (UPI) --A new rapid blood test for newborns could potentially detect genetic mutations linked to thousands of rare diseases all at once, greatly improving on current ...

Researchers at the Broad Institute and The Jackson Laboratory have used prime editing, a precise and versatile form of gene editing, to correct the root cause of AHC in mice. The team used a scalable ...