A reanalysis of whole-genome data from 130 children conceived after the Chernobyl disaster has identified a statistically ...

A gene known as CTNNB1 encodes for a crucial protein called B-catenin, which has an important role in controlling tissue ...

From the time we are conceived and through old age, genetic mutations accumulate in all our tissues, eluding the body’s typically efficient DNA repair machinery and potentially affecting our health ...

Mutations have conventionally been categorized as either those arising in the germline or somatic mutations acquired during life. Deleterious germline mutations usually lead to conditions that ...

A new study published in Nature Genetics reveals that not all cancer-associated mutations in the same gene behave alike. Led ...