Mothers influence their child’s weight both through passed-down genes and daily habits. Fathers' impact appears mostly ...

A new study finds that kids with obesity are more likely to have obese parents because they inherit obesity-related genes, ...

PacBio develops the Platinum Pedigree benchmark, a new standard for accurate characterization of variation in the human genome.

Indeed, shortly after Mendel's discoveries about inheritance patterns became widely known, numerous researchers began to notice exceptions to his principles.