Mitochondrial diseases affect approximately 1 in 5,000 people worldwide, causing debilitating symptoms ranging from muscle weakness to stroke-like episodes.

A genetic mutation and evolutionary trick fuels horses' exceptional athleticism, findings that may advance scientific ...

Dr Whiffin said her team had used a large UK genetics dataset ... diseases team to screen their patient database for the RNU4-2 mutation. "Within 20 minutes he was able to come back and say ...

or is it driven by one or a few mutations that cause major changes in traits. Chromosomal rearrangements where large chunks of chromosomes are inverted, moved, deleted or duplicated, provide a ...

This paper challenges a fundamental view concerning why males of most animals have a higher germline mutation rate than females. Evidence is provided to show that it is not simply the fact that males ...