Some traits come only from your mother, from mitochondrial DNA to intelligence and inherited health risks. The post Traits ...

Behavioral similarities between parents and their offspring are less marked than is often suggested, a new study shows. People are only slightly more likely to share personality traits with their ...

Scientists found that some inherited traits can bypass the traditional rules of genetics, revealing a surprising new layer of ...

Mendel's famous laws of heredity, established over a century ago, may not be as universal as once thought. A recent study on ...

It has long been known that environmental conditions can shape how traits are inherited, a phenomenon known as transgenerational epigenetic inheritance. However, the molecular signals responsible for ...

The human genome may have been sequenced, but we are still learning about how it works. One of the features of the genome scientists are still deciphering is epigenetics, which refers to the various ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Genetic information in the DNA and modifications, such as DNA methylation, define the epigenetic landscape and phenotype and show ...

The blueprint of who we are begins with the genes passed down from our parents. While these inherited traits give us our eye color and height, they can also contain instructions that increase our risk ...