Sitting in my doctor's examination room, I was surprised when she told me, "Genetics don't really matter for chronic disease.

As a researcher who studies the genetics of disease, I don’t fully disagree – lifestyle factors play a large role in ...

To illustrate the effect gene-environment interactions have on disease, let’s consider the example of aspirin use and colon cancer. In 2001, researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research ...

Asthma is a classic example of gene-environment interaction. A host of environmental triggers, from cigarette smoke to cockroaches, can set it off. A dozen or so genes for various molecules, including ...

An interview with Paula and Bridgette Powers—identical twins who witnessed their mother's carjacking—recently went viral. The ...