Certain rare genetic disorders may cause a child to develop obesity. Health experts may refer to these conditions as syndromic childhood obesity. They may affect a child’s metabolism or cause them to ...

Naorem Loya MangangSmoking is widely recognized as the leading cause of lung cancer. Cigarette smoke contains thousands of ...

Researchers from Radboud University Medical Center and University of Basel have discovered new genetic causes of inherited blindness. Their study, published in Nature Genetics, shows that changes in ...

Tired all the time? It might be in your DNA. A new study has uncovered striking genetic differences in people suffering from a devastating illness that causes extreme exhaustion, chronic pain and ...

Although mental disorders have multifactorial causes, genetics can explain some of them, yet this field remains largely unexplored in terms of guiding diagnoses and treatments. In the largest study of ...

Researchers developed brain organoids from patient samples to model genetic subtypes of autism spectrum disorders (ASD), creating a translational platform that better reflects the human-specific ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Children with five genetic causes of short stature had height velocity increases of 3 cm or more with vosoritide ...