The association between parents' BMI and their children's BMI during childhood may be primarily due to genetic inheritance ...

Genetic factors primarily explain the link between parental and childhood BMI, with maternal obesity impacting birth weight ...

Lamia Wahba is studying how information outside the genetic code can pass between generations and what that means for evolution and disease. When we think about genetic inheritance, we usually leap to ...

From dwarfism to overgrowth, scientists unravel the complex genetic blueprint that determines how tall—or short—we become. Review: The genetic basis of human height. Image Credit: XiXinXing / ...