For more than a century, heredity has been framed through the tidy logic of Mendel’s pea plants: traits pass from parent to ...

A major mouse study found that some inherited traits are passed down through epigenetic changes that break the classic rules ...

Scientists have long known that the DNA code in genes is not the only way to pass genetic traits from parents to offspring. "Epigenetic" marks—chemical modifications to DNA that don't change the DNA ...

From your eye color to your health risks, genetic inheritance plays a powerful role in who you are. Understanding dominant, recessive, and X-linked traits can help you make sense of family patterns ...

Forty years ago, a postdoctoral researcher named James McGrath who would go on to spend more than three decades as a clinical geneticist and research scientist at Yale, made a discovery that advanced ...