A new study into the APOE gene suggests two variants may influence Alzheimer's and dementia risk more than previously thought ...

Potentially more than 90% of Alzheimer’s disease cases would not occur without the contribution of a single gene (APOE), according to a new analysis led by University College London (UCL) researchers.

A genetic mutation passed from mother to children in families affected by schizophrenia has now been shown to completely ...

Less than 30% of people with certain genetic variants go blind, despite the faulty genes previously being thought to cause ...

Scientists have been trying to identify the exact causes of Alzheimer's disease for many years, and while we know that pathologies like tau tangles and amyloid plaques are related to the ...

The study used large-scale CRISPR gene-editing technology to systematically determine which genes are required as embryonic ...

An international research team identified hundreds of genes essential for the development of brain cells, including one gene ...

Scientists discovered that aging DNA repeats expand at wildly different speeds—and in some people, the consequences can be devastating. A sweeping genetic study drawing on data from more than 900,000 ...

While some genes have been linked to specific disorders, it may not always be clear how changes in those genes can lead to disease. There have been many genes linked to autism spectrum disorder (ASD), ...