Noonan Syndrome, identified by Dr. Jacqueline A. Noonan, involves congenital heart defects and is linked to PTPN11 gene mutations. Cronkhite-Canada Syndrome, discovered by Dr. Wilma Jeanne Canada, is ...

Deb Jenssen never wanted her children to suffer from the disease that killed her brother at 28. The illness, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, initially manifests in childhood as trouble with strength and ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — A study done at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) in collaboration with Swedish researchers suggests that women have a higher genetic predisposition to develop ...

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 ...

"No one expects a grown woman in her 40s to have an eating disorder. That's for teenagers, right? Well, guess what – it happened to me." Alexa, a 44-year-old real estate agent, was telling me about ...

Hormones control essential processes like growth, metabolism, mood, and reproduction, but when their balance is disrupted, it ...

Scientists discovered that aging DNA repeats expand at wildly different speeds—and in some people, the consequences can be devastating. A sweeping genetic study drawing on data from more than 900,000 ...