Ochsner Baton Rouge is now offering a new screening tool for people who may want to find out if they're at a higher genetic ...

The obesity rate has been steadily climbing and so have scientific efforts to understand why. A new study, published in ...

Medical genetics is an interdisciplinary field that studies the role of genetic variation in human disease. It investigates a wide range of conditions—from single-gene disorders to complex polygenic ...

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(Reuters) -Genetic factors contribute more to depression risk in females than in males, according to a large Australian study ...

AURORA, Colo. (May 30, 2024) – Children exposed to gestational diabetes in utero with a specific variation of a common gene are at a higher risk of becoming overweight or obese during childhood, ...

Important genetic differences in how females and males experience depression have been revealed for the first time in ...

Study published in Nature Communications identifies significant genetic differences in how depression affects women versus ...

People with genetic variants that naturally help them have lower cholesterol also have a lower risk of dementia. For those without these genetic variants, use of cholesterol-lowering drugs could ...

Alongside its development of artificial intelligence-powered software to analyze huge amounts of genomic, imaging and other healthcare data, Sophia Genetics is now turning to a new medium to explain ...