Live Science spoke with a bioethicist and sociologist about emerging genomic technologies, including those that enable ...

Companies now offer polygenic embryo selection to prospective parents undergoing IVF. But the technology is dangerously ...

The role of polygenic risk scores in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) may be influenced by telomere length, ...

But they disagree on whether studying social genomics—elucidating any potential genetic contributions to behaviors ranging from mental illnesses to educational attainment to political affiliation—can ...

A polygenic risk score was able to detect a high proportion of clinically significant prostate cancer. Cancer would not have been detected in 71.8% of patients with the use of PSA or MRI screening.

Polygenic indices related to the best-established social, psychological, and behavioural mortality risk phenotypes had the strongest associations with mortality.

Prospective parents are being marketed genetic tests that claim to predict which IVF embryo will grow into the tallest, ...

Over the past decade, behavioural genetics has made great advancements in predicting human behaviour using DNA. By combining millions of genetic variants into polygenic scores (PGS), researchers can ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers said common risk variants help explain why epilepsy occurs in some family members and not others.

In “What We Inherit,” Sam Trejo and Daphne O. Martschenko examine the link between genetic myths and social genomics.