An international collaboration of genetic researchers has identified more than 90 genetic regions associated with the risk of ...

Extensive gene mapping reveals 20 variants linked to atherosclerosis risk, paving way for early detection by University of Gothenburg Editors' notes The GIST Add as preferred source ...

For decades, geneticists have known that most common illnesses are not caused by a single rogue gene but by intricate constellations of DNA variants acting together in specific cells. Now a new ...

The ability of different genetic variants—changes to one or more building blocks of DNA—to cause disease, and to what extent, has historically been opaque. Geneticist and Crick group leader Greg ...