How a Single Genetic Switch Creates Orange, Calico, and Tortoiseshell Cats

Orange cats are among the most recognizable felines in the world. From beloved internet celebrities to mischievous household ...
Forbes

Does Smoking Cause Genetic Mutations In Your Children?

A man sits outside and holds a slim menthol cigarette between his fingers. Close-up with focus on the cigarette. The study provided a comprehensive examination of how lifestyle and environmental ...
Labroots

Why Don't Genetic Mutations Always Cause Symptoms?

Human cells usually contain two copies of most genes, one of which comes from the mother while the other comes from the father. It's long been thought that usually these two copies, or alleles of ...
Medical Xpress

'Jumping gene' helps explain elevated pancreatic cancer risk in French-Canadians

Researchers at McGill University have discovered a centuries-old genetic mutation that helps to explain why some French‑Canadians in Quebec are at an elevated risk of pancreatic cancer. Until quite ...

No ‘obesity gene’: why your genetic makeup is not a fixed destiny

Scientists cannot reliably predict whether an individual carrying certain gene variants will eventually end up obese. Put ...
Medical Xpress

Surprising way that genetic mutation causes Huntington's disease changes understanding of the disorder

Scientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Harvard Medical School, and McLean Hospital have discovered a surprising mechanism by which the inherited genetic mutation known to cause ...

TP53 gene mutations affect lung cancer treatment response, study shows

Lung cancer is the most common and deadly form of cancer worldwide. It is increasingly understood to be a complex genetic ...
HUB

A genetic mutation and evolutionary trick makes horses athletic

How did horses become some of the greatest athletes in the animal kingdom? Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine may have found the answer, pinpointing a genetic mutation and evolutionary process that ...
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Same genetic mutation, different clinical outcomes: Study shows why neurodevelopmental disorders vary so widely

Individuals that share the same deletion of a portion of chromosome 16 are at risk of developing neurodevelopmental disorders, but some experience severe intellectual disability or developmental delay ...

A single gene may explain why some males live fast and die young

A small fish that lives fast and dies young has given biologists a rare look at one of evolution’s oldest bargains. In the ...

A first genetic analysis of the cruise hantavirus case confirmed it was the Andes variant, and the twist is what it did not show, no mutations that change the story

Genetic analysis of the cruise hantavirus confirms the Andes variant, showing no new mutations that would change the outbreak's story.
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‘Jumping gene’ helps explain elevated pancreatic cancer risk in French-Canadians

Researchers at McGill University have discovered a centuries-old genetic mutation that helps to explain why some French‑Canadians in Quebec are at an elevated risk of pancreatic cancer. Until quite ...