Rosa Rademakers and Bryan Traynor received this year’s Breakthrough Prize for identifying the most common genetic cause of ...

When a child’s symptoms stump one specialist after another for years on end, families describe the experience as grueling and ...

Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute and an international team of collaborators have used a genetic sequencing technique called whole exome sequencing to discover a new ...

Research on Tourette’s indicates that the condition is strongly influenced by inherited genetic factors, with environmental factors also contributing to its development. Tourette syndrome is a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Recent breakthroughs in genetics research may have uncovered new genes underlying common psychiatric disorders. Schizophrenia and ...

Scientists now recognize that spontaneous DNA errors, which we acquire in early development all the way until our last breath ...

Estimating that ReNU2 syndrome could account for around 10 percent of recessive neurodevelopmental disorder cases with a ...

A massive global genetics study is reshaping how we understand mental illness—and why diagnoses so often pile up. By analyzing genetic data from more than six million people, researchers uncovered ...

DNA found in a prehistoric grave in Italy reveals a rare genetic disorder and is transforming our understanding of ancient ...

A new study has provided new insights into the the genetic overlap among some psychiatric disorders, and can help explain why it’s not uncommon for several of these disorders to arise in the same ...