Genetics play an important role in child development. What determines how a child develops? While it is impossible to account for each and every influence that contributes to who a child eventually ...

As a group, carriers of recessive disorders are slightly less healthy and have a reduced chance of having offspring. This disadvantage is greatest for carriers of a recessive gene for intellectual ...

Hundreds of genes have been linked to autism, yet the precise molecular and cellular mechanisms behind it remain largely ...

An international team of researchers from institutions around the world, including Baylor College of Medicine, has discovered that mutations of the OTUD6B gene result in a spectrum of physical and ...

A team of researchers from the University of Aberdeen has uncovered, for the first time, how genes linked to autism and intellectual disability may influence early brain development. Their work helps ...

The human brain's remarkably prolonged development is unique among mammals and is thought to contribute to our advanced learning abilities. Disruptions in this process may explain certain ...

Maternal infection during pregnancy has been shown in epidemiological studies to increase the risk of neurodevelopmental disorders, like schizophrenia, in the developing fetus. Epigenetic mechanisms ...

Non-cognitive skills, such as motivation and self-regulation, are partly heritable and predict academic achievement beyond cognitive skills. However, how the relationship between non-cognitive skills ...

Researchers from the Mammalian Genetics Unit at the MRC Harwell Institute, have gained new insights into the function of the gene Katnal1 one of a small family of genes that have been linked with ...

Researchers at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) and Queen's University have identified 26 new genes linked to intellectual disability. Currently most patients with intellectual ...

Cells have surface receptors that couple with proteins and other molecules to initiate or inhibit certain behaviors.

Researchers from Radboudumc, Department of Human Genetics, demonstrated something remarkable in a 2014 publication in Nature. Contrary to expectations, inherited variants in genes were rarely ...