Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers in France observed that maternal inheritance of familial hypercholesterolemia was associated with ...

Mass General Brigham researchers analyzed 4,400 cognitively unimpaired adults with amyloid imaging, finding increased amyloid in those who reported that their mothers had symptoms of Alzheimer’s ...

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is highly heritable, and previous research suggests a preferential maternal inheritance of AD. New data confirm this hypothesis but also highlight the importance of ...

Thomas G. McWilliams is at the Research Programs Unit, Stem Cells and Metabolism, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki 00290, Finland. Luo and colleagues identified three families ...

An epigenetic study at the RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences shows that in mouse egg cells, modifications to histone H2A at lysine 119 lay the groundwork for inherited DNA functional ...

University of Nevada, Reno researchers Jeanne and David Zeh of the Department of Biology have received a five-year, $650,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to investigate the effects of ...

Scientists have argued whether or not the often-studied mitochondrial DNA molecule is clonally inherited. It is with assuming clonal inheritance this type of DNA has been used to track the origin of ...

Stone illustration Kidney stone formers with certain hereditary factors had increased risks for more severe disease. A family history of kidney stone disease may predict earlier onset of kidney stones ...

1. A chlorophyll variegation is described which is inherited through the female parent only. A variegated plant gives pale green, variegated, and green progeny in varying proportions, irrespective of ...