More people are turning to genetic counseling to understand their DNA and assess their risk for certain diseases. As part of ...

Though we all share common ancestors ranging from a few generations to hundreds of thousands of years, genealogies that relate all of us are often forgotten over time. A new McGill University-led ...

In 2003, the Human Genome Project became the culmination of the history of genetics research, allowing us to understand the role of genetics in human health and disease. As part of The Clinical ...

The PHG Foundation hosted an event in Westminster on 8 th December 2022 to showcase the research behind a new book published by Routledge: Making Genetics and Genomics Policy in Britain: From Personal ...

A recent article in JAMA Internal Medicine describes a common genetic mutation found in many breast cancer patients who do not have a family history of the disease. The study looked at germline ...

In 1980, a landmark paper described restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP), a method predateding high volume DNA sequencing, that could be used to identify disease-causing genes. Ray ...