In recent years, the number of people with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) has been increasing, and there is obvious familial aggregation of T2DM. Pregestational and gestational diabetes mellitus are ...

Mass General Brigham researchers analyzed 4,400 cognitively unimpaired adults with amyloid imaging, finding increased amyloid in those who reported that their mothers had symptoms of Alzheimer’s ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers in France observed that maternal inheritance of familial hypercholesterolemia was associated with ...

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is highly heritable, and previous research suggests a preferential maternal inheritance of AD. New data confirm this hypothesis but also highlight the importance of ...

Most heritable information in eukaryotic cells is encoded in the nuclear genome, with inheritance patterns following classic Mendelian segregation. Genomes residing in the cytoplasm, however, prove to ...

An epigenetic study at the RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences shows that in mouse egg cells, modifications to histone H2A at lysine 119 lay the groundwork for inherited DNA functional ...

A new study by investigators from Mass General Brigham suggests that whether a person inherits risk of Alzheimer's disease from their mother or father influences the risk of biological changes in the ...