A new study identifies PTCHD1-AS as a key non-coding gene that shapes social and repetitive behaviors in autism without affecting cognition.

Obsessive compulsive disorder has many unknowns, including what causes it, why symptoms can differ so much between people, how medication and therapy for it actually work, and why treatment is ...

A long-overlooked stretch of the human genome appears to play a distinct role in shaping the social and stereotypic ...

In recent years, scientists have identified hundreds of different genes associated with autism, a burst of discovery that has ...

Scientists have been trying to identify the exact causes of Alzheimer's disease for many years, and while we know that pathologies like tau tangles and amyloid plaques are related to the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. No single gene causes OCD, but identifying the genetic markers linked to the condition can help clarify how it develops. Viktoria ...

Parkinson's disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disease in the world, and an estimated 90,000 new patients are diagnosed every year in the US alone. Scientists have tried to learn more ...

Do your genes determine how long you will live, or do your lifestyle factors matter more? Learn how these work together for a ...

In Mendelian inheritance patterns, you receive one version of a gene, called an allele, from each parent. These alleles can be dominant or recessive. Non-Mendelian genetics don’t completely follow ...

Accra, May 15, GNA – A recent study by Professor Vincent Boima, Head, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, University of Ghana, has revealed that genetics may play an important role in the ...