Children with obese parents are more likely to be obese themselves – but their mothers’ genes appear to be particularly important in determining their weight, a new study has found. Obesity is thought ...

A new study finds that kids with obesity are more likely to have obese parents because they inherit obesity-related genes, and to a smaller extent, are impacted indirectly by genes carried by the ...

What if some of the risk of anxiety and depression in children is not only about the genes they inherit, but also about their parents' genetic dispositions and how these influence the home environment ...