Study explains long-standing question of why Huntington’s disease symptoms typically do not appear until midlife even though ...

Scientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Harvard Medical School, and McLean Hospital have discovered a ...

Some DNA damage evades repair for years, causing repeated mutations during cell division, increasing cancer risk, especially ...

A new mega-database of half a million mutations may flag new ways of treating genetic disease, scientists say.

An emerging field of genetics promises to let parents choose the “healthiest” baby.

Recent findings uncover how Huntington's disease develops over time, revealing the mutation's delayed effects on brain cells.

While most known types of DNA damage are fixed by our cells' in-house DNA repair mechanisms, some forms of DNA damage evade ...

Scientists uncover how a genetic mutation linked to Huntington's disease stays harmless for years before expanding and causing cell death. The study discovers that DNA repeats must exceed 150 CAGs to ...

While most known types of DNA damage are fixed by our cells’ in-house DNA repair mechanisms, some forms of DNA damage evade repair and can persist for many years, new research shows. This means that ...

Large and rare duplications and deletions in a chromosome region known as 22q11.2 , which involves genes that regulate ...