Shared genetic factors may drive both osteoarthritis and cardiovascular disease, suggesting a common genetic basis that ...

Recent studies reveal a concerning rise in ADHD diagnoses, particularly among children in the US and Sweden. While the exact ...

The heritability of newly acquired traits is a hallmark of clonal expansion in tumours. The inheritance of information on the basis of gene expression levels is known as epigenetics, as opposed to ...

“Most people believe that the world is going to hell in a basket,” says Bruce Hood, psychologist and happiness expert and ...

A regression discontinuity analysis finds essentially no effect of 1 additional year of secondary education on brain structure in adulthood. This is a valuable finding that adds to the literature on ...

This means that environmental and genetic risk effects cannot be considered as entirely distinct. The high heritability of ADHD has fuelled efforts to identify susceptibility genes. As is the case for ...

Bad memory? Poor sleep habits? These inherited traits may come from your parents. But who's to blame? Here's what the science ...