How much do your genes determine how long you'll live? It's a question that fascinates us, and one that's been debated for decades.

What determines how long we live—and to what extent is our lifespan shaped by our genes? Surprisingly, for decades, scientists believed that the heritability of human lifespan was relatively low ...

The headline figure of lifespan being around “50 per cent heritable” risks being misunderstood as meaning genes determine ...

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine's Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center and Human Genome Sequencing Center investigated the extent to which forms of genetic variation called germline or ...

Putting aside the risk of an early grave by accident or injury, your genes may have a much greater impact on your lifespan ...

Researchers have long been at work trying to understand how variations in gene regulation translate into the biology of a disorder such as cancer or heart disease. Now a team led by scientists from ...

Professor Asaf Hellman and his research team at the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School have unveiled new findings in the realm of methylation-directed regulatory networks. Their study sheds ...

LONDON, July 1 (Reuters) - As many as 30,000 different gene variations may underlie schizophrenia and bipolar disease, meaning any kind of quick test to predict either disease is a long way off, ...

For decades, scientists have debated how much of our lifespan is written into our DNA and how much is shaped by the world around us. New research is tilting that balance toward biology, suggesting ...

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine’s Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center and Human Genome Sequencing Center investigated the extent to which forms of genetic variation called germline or ...