A government-funded project to collect DNA samples and medical records from 500,000 British volunteers aged 45-69, to study the effects of genetic and environmental factors on health.
Developing post-traumatic stress disorder following traumatic events has a strong genetic component, a new study shows...
Inheriting two copies of a chromosome from a single parent is more common than previously thought, according to a new study...
A new genome-wide association study has identified specific gene regions that can influence left-handedness and differences in brain organisation which may be linked to better verbal skills...
The largest study to date into the genetic basis of sexuality has found that there is no single gene associated with same-sex sexual behaviour...
The past few years have seen a huge increase in the identification of rare and common genetic variants associated with disease, advances made possible through ever cheaper and faster genome sequencing technologies...
A common hereditary condition which causes the body to overload with iron, is linked to higher levels of disease and disability than previously thought, according to a cohort study using UK BioBank data...
Researchers have developed a new way of analysing genomic data that may help identify disease risk much earlier than current predictors...
Genetic variants may influence how long people remain in school, according to a study of over 1 million genomes...
Thirteen European countries have pledged to share one million genomes for research purposes by 2022...
The Progress Educational Trust event 'Putting Your Genome to Work: For the NHS, for Industry, for the UK Post-Brexit' took place at Amnesty International in London on 21 March 2018...
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