Genetic testing can help doctors diagnose some neurological disorders, such as Huntington’s disease. It can also provide insights into a person’s risk of future health conditions. Genetic testing ...

An autoimmune disorder that affects the thyroid gland, called autoimmune hypothyroidism (AIHT), is the most common autoimmune ...

Scientists have identified how specific genetic changes function in cells to influence disease risk and other human health ...

— The genetic roots of a disease or disorder do not always grow into clear cut, easily diagnosed clinical features. Even if a parent and child have the same genetic marker implicated in an outcome, ...

Researchers have uncovered shared genetic pathways that link multiple psychiatric disorders. These new findings have the potential to change the way psychiatric disorders are diagnosed and treated, ...

Advances in DNA sequencing have revealed something surprising—not everyone with the same genetic change develops the same ...

By Rowland Illing, AWS Chief Medical Officer and Director of Global Healthcare and Nonprofits  It's one of medicine's tragic paradoxes that, collectively, ...

Rare genetic traits are features that are uncommon within the general population. They can lead to different observable features or to rare physical abilities. Rare genetic traits are typically ...

Rare disease day is observed annually on the last day of February to spread awareness on certain conditions that can impact on patients lives.