You learn your mother’s laugh before you learn to walk. You borrow her eye shape, her nervous energy, her way of running late for everything but always arriving with something useful. Some of that is ...

Your parents probably had more than a few. Here are 5 toxic traits inherited from parents, and what research says about ...

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 ...

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 ...

In Mendelian inheritance patterns, you receive one version of a gene, called an allele, from each parent. These alleles can be dominant or recessive. Non-Mendelian genetics don’t completely follow ...