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

Families pass down far more than physical traits, traditions, or mannerisms. They pass down emotional patterns, coping styles ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...