Emeli Chatterjee, Ph.D., of the Cardiovascular Research Center at Massachusetts General Hospital, is the lead author and ...

It is a major step towards understanding the condition’s genetic underpinnings and improving care. Read more at ...

Pharmacogenomics: A certain type of genetic testing helps identify how a person’s genetic makeup might affect their response to drugs. This information can help guide personalized treatment plans.

This study, which took advantage of multiple types of genetic sequencing methods, has been reported in Nature. "It's mutations that ultimately differentiate us from other species," noted study ...

A cutting-edge genetic test can rapidly detect and identify almost any kind of disease-causing microorganism in the human body, whether it's a virus, bacteria, fungus or parasite, researchers say.