Earlier this week, a team of researchers announced that they’d made a discovery about how we inherit mitochondrial dna from ...

In the early 1990s, Keith Willmott and a friend, both undergraduate students from the United Kingdom, arrived in Ecuador with ...

Tracing policy decisions from early America to today, the reports reveal how long-standing choices continue to shape access ...

America’s adult children say they are ready to manage that inheritance now. Their parents might disagree. A report from Fidelity Investments sheds new light on an estate-planning generation gap. Aging ...

Most cases of immunoglobulin A (IgA) nephropathy are sporadic (or idiopathic), occurring over time for reasons experts don't fully understand. Research suggests that genetic factors are involved in ...

A lesser-known inheritance tax loophole is allowing families to save significantly on their IHT bills – and financial advisers say they are using it with more clients than ever since chancellor Rachel ...

In a recent study published in the journal Nature, an international team of researchers developed a novel approach to infer parent-of-origin (PofO) of alleles without parental genomes. Genome-wide ...

Farmers and business owners are being urged to check their wills after the government released more details of new rules that will see them liable for inheritance tax from next year. Elsa Littlewood, ...

Cystic fibrosis represents one of the most common inherited genetic disorders affecting people of European descent, touching the lives of approximately 30,000 individuals in the United States alone.

Ideally, the pedigree is expanded to include the details of as many generations and distant relatives as the subject is able to give; larger is better for diseases with low penetrance, for scrutiny of ...

Baby boomers, who control over $70 trillion in wealth, are changing traditional inheritance patterns, directly impacting younger generations. Many choose to spend their hard-earned money rather than ...

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