New research led by investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), a founding member of Mass General Brigham (MGB), indicates that socioeconomic and genetic factors likely interact in an ...

The greatest diversity of life is not counted in the number of species, says an evolutionary geneticist, but in the diversity of interactions among them. He says it's often unclear if the outcome of ...

Despite the development of cutting-edge genetic testing techniques and considerable progress in our understanding of the genetic basis of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), missing heritability and ...

This study was reported by Qifa Zhang and Yidan Ouyang’ group from the National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China. Inbreeding depression is ...

New research from King’s College London and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has shown that genetic load for schizophrenia and frequent use of cannabis have independent links to the ...

In this lecture, the univariate twin model is extended to the bivariate twin model. It is explained how the variance in two traits is decomposed into additive genetic, non-additive genetic, and ...