Two women have the same genetic mutation – an abnormal BRCA1 gene that puts them both at much higher-than-average risk for breast cancer – but only one woman develops the disease. Why? Michigan State ...

Researchers should embrace differences in genetic background to build richer disease models that more accurately reflect the level of variation in the human population, posits Clement Chow. At the ...

While people are made from the same genes, small changes in those genes can have a huge impact on our biology. New research reported in Genetics in Medicine has shown how in the case of ...