They found that most undiagnosed cases that are due to recessive causes are linked to genes we already know about, and suggest a shift in research focus could improve diagnosis rates. Researchers ...

If individuals in the group tend to marry within it, there's a greater likelihood that the recessive genes of the founders will come together in the cells that produce offspring. Thus diseases of ...

Golden Tabby tigers, a rare form of the Bengal tiger, are distinguished by their beautiful golden coat and white stripes.

Hemophilia is a rare but serious inherited disease. The constant risk of unexpected bleeding makes it a silent and persistent ...

A new study from deCODE genetics and collaborators is the first to uncover a strong recessive component in Alzheimer's disease. deCODE genetics/Amgen, and collaborators from Iceland, U.S., UK ...

Single-Gene Test Crosses Recall that in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, the ebony-body allele (e) is recessive to the normal yellow-body allele (E). Say you are given a male fly with a ...

Another paper from the PCGC published earlier this month, also showed that recessive mutations, which only cause disease when both copies of a gene are mutated, contribute to only about 2% of CHD ...

Therefore, females with an X chromosome-linked recessive disease inherit one copy of the mutant gene from an affected father and the second copy of the mutant gene from their mother, who is most ...