The purpose of this study is to describe recessive alleles in strictly dominant genes. Identifying recessive mutations in genes for which only dominant disease or risk alleles have been reported can ...

Your genes are made of DNA. This DNA provides instructions, which determines traits like your hair color and blood type. There are different versions of genes. Each ...

Researchers have conducted what they say is the largest and most diverse study to date on how recessive genetic changes contribute to developmental disorders. The team, headed by researchers at the ...

In general, humans have the same genes. A number of genes are varied. These control our physical traits and health. Each variation is called an allele. You inherit two alleles for each gene. One comes ...

Only a small fraction of rare, undiagnosed developmental disorders in the British Isles are caused by recessive genes. Researchers estimated only 5 percent of the patients had inherited a ...

As a group, carriers of recessive disorders are slightly less healthy and have a reduced chance of having offspring. This disadvantage is greatest for carriers of a recessive gene for intellectual ...

There’s no simple answer, because genetics is complicated and many traits — such as eye colour — are influenced by many genes Why are some genes dominant? Such as those for brown eyes over blue eyes, ...

Diseases or health problems are not only transferred through infections and inflammation, but also through your genes. There are some disorders that you already have it in your genes and you get it ...

Most genetic variants linked to autism are de novo mutations, which are not inherited and are relatively easy to find. A new study, in one of the largest cohorts to date, instead tracked rare ...