In a new JAMA Dermatology study, scientists at King's College London found that changes in two parts of the genome work together to influence alopecia risk. Frontal fibrosing alopecia (FFA) is a ...

Euan Ashley's lab explores the intricate interactions of gene variants. Tiny "typos," or genetic mutations, can sneak into segments of DNA. Many of these are harmless, but some can cause health ...

There are individuals who carry the same deletion of chromosome 16, and those same delections can lead to a wide range of potential neurodevelopmental issues in carriers, from milder mental illnesses ...

Alopecia refers to hair loss and can affect the scalp, eyebrows, eyelashes, and other areas of the body. There are different types of alopecia including androgenetic alopecia, alopecia areata, anagen ...

Depression is a highly common mental health condition that affects millions of people worldwide. Medical professionals have ...

Our bodies follow a natural 24-hour cycle known as the circadian rhythm that influences everything from sleep to metabolism. While scientists have long known that certain core circadian clock genes ...

For more than a century, heredity has been framed through the tidy logic of Mendel’s pea plants: traits pass from parent to ...

Advances in the gene-editing technology known as CRISPR-Cas9 over the past 15 years have yielded important new insights into the roles that specific genes play in many diseases. But to date this ...

When two homozygous plant lines with different characteristics are crossed, the resulting offspring are often more robust and productive than their parents. This phenomenon is called heterosis. It can ...

Scientists have discovered an interaction between genes that increases the risk of developing a type of alopecia. Scientists have discovered an interaction between genes that increases the risk of ...