Patients were previously met with fragmented care, limited access to genetic testing and a lack of integrated counselling, OGS clinical director Beau Fenner said. The care was also focused on ...

The NCCN's new resource educates patients on genetic testing for hereditary cancer risk, focusing on breast, ovarian, pancreatic, and prostate cancers. Advances in genetic technology, spurred by ...

Polygenic scores (PGS) are metrics used to estimate the genetic predisposition of people to developing specific mental health conditions, personality traits or diseases. In recent years ...

“It’s only when the repeat becomes extremely long that it begins to cause harm,” said co-senior author Steve McCarroll, an institute member and director of genomic neurobiology at the Stanley Center ...

“I’d burn all my money to know that.” Thanks to more sophisticated genetic-testing techniques, IVF—an expensive, invasive treatment originally developed to help people with fertility ...

New genetic risk factors for depression have been ... modafinil – used to treat chronic pain and the sleeping condition narcolepsy, respectively – which could potentially be repurposed for ...

in a protocol for preimplantation genetic testing for structural rearrangements (PGT-SR). In-vitro fertilization (IVF) and the PGT-SR protocol, which included OGM, led to selection of the presumed ...

But a new global study may have revealed genetic causes of depression which ... and Modafinil, used for narcolepsy, could potentially be repurposed for helping with depression.

Efforts to ease the crisis have included the development of genetic testing to identify individuals most at risk for OUD. New research, published in JAMA Network Open, questions the usefulness of ...

So how much of a person’s longevity can be attributed to lifestyle choices and how much is just luck — or lucky genetics? It depends on how long you’re hoping to live. Research suggests that ...

The current diagnostic criteria for narcolepsy are a mean sleep latency of ≤8 min on the Multiple Sleep Latency Test (MSLT) and the presence of ≥2 Sleep Onset Rapid Eye Movement Periods (SOREMPs).

Including genetic testing in evaluations for children with autism, developmental delay and other neurodevelopmental disorders often leads to major changes in care, researchers say. In a study looking ...