Nature and nurture both determine how likely you are to develop a particular disease. Hiroshi Watanabe/DigitalVision via Getty Images Sitting in my doctor’s examination room, I was surprised when she ...

A short period of heat stress changed genes in fruit flies, and these changes lasted for generations. Some offspring even ...

In a new perspective article, researchers underscore the importance of integrating environmental effects into genetic research. The authors discuss how failure to do so can perpetuate deterministic ...

Twin studies can help geneticists determine whether some trait or condition is caused by the environment, or by genetics. Since identical twins carry basically the same genome, if a trait is due to ...

Infants of mothers with diabetes have a three- to five-fold increased risk of congenital heart defects. Such developmental defects are likely caused by a combination of genetic and environmental ...

Tracking uncertainty in germline genetic testing for hereditary cancer syndromes: Sources, attributes, and resolution of variants of uncertain significance in over 1 million individuals. This is an ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A leading national autism researcher cautions against only considering environmental factors being primarily to blame for ...