An age-old conundrum regarding raising children is the issue of nature versus nurture. That is, do genes determine a child's success in life, or is it the environment in which that child is raised? Or ...

Genome sequencing has been used to determine how much genes influence human characteristics including height and weight, and ...

(Listen to this post, or right-click to download mp3.) Sometimes asking the wrong question will lead you down a dead-end path. A road to nowhere. And, until you reverse direction, back up, and ask the ...

Genome sequencing has been used to determine how much genes influence human characteristics including height and weight, and susceptibility to ...

Is it possible to separate the roles of our genetic inheritance from our environment? Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and polygenic scores have tried to look at the genetic component. But it ...