Hunter Syndrome is a rare genetic condition that can cause damage to the body and the brain. It often causes children to pass away in their teens, but a UNC Health ...

For too long, the promise of personalized therapies has been tantalizingly close, yet frustratingly out of reach for ...

"Monogenic" diseases, triggered by mutations in just one gene, may actually be more complex than scientists thought.

A sweeping new peer-reviewed study published in Genomic Psychiatry has introduced a concept that could reshape how psychiatrists and geneticists think about mental illness: genetic specificity.

Many psychiatric disorders are more biologically related than previously understood, having more genetic similarities than differences, a new study shows. More research is needed to understand how ...

"It's a slow-moving train wreck," Mike Graglia says about his 12-year-old son Tony's rare genetic disease with no cure. Caused by a tiny fluke of nature—a mutation in a gene known as a SYNGAP1—the non ...

Scientists at Gladstone Institutes have flipped the traditional approach to finding potential treatments for deadly diseases.

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, ...

Eating disorders are not caused by genetics alone, but genes can play a significant role in making someone more vulnerable to developing one. Researchers do not understand the exact cause of eating ...