In Mendelian inheritance patterns, you receive one version of a gene, called an allele, from each parent. These alleles can be dominant or recessive. Non-Mendelian genetics don’t completely ...

Quest Diagnostics is launching a new pharmacogenomics program designed to decode patients’ DNA to predict how they will respond to certain therapies and doses. | Quest said its test will span drugs ...

We review both the theory and the data supporting the neo-Darwinian claim that adaptation results from the accumulation of many alleles of small effect. The theory supporting this "micromutationist" ...

Learn how your genetics determines your blood type, including what genes are involved and what the inheritance patterns look like.