Obesity increases the risk of nearly 200 diseases. A new genetic test may be able to predict a young child's risk of obesity ...

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In a first-of-its-kind experiment tracing evolution across 25 generations, scientists have discovered that marine ...

Scientists at Princeton and the Simons Foundation have identified four biologically distinct subtypes of autism, using data ...

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A new genetic test using data from over 5 million people predicts childhood obesity risk by age 5 with twice the accuracy of ...

Families with three or more boys, for example, are more likely to have another boy than a girl as the next child.

Researchers have identified two genes from the human genome’s “dark matter” that influence brain size and synaptic signaling.