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 follow ...

Some traits come only from your mother, from mitochondrial DNA to intelligence and inherited health risks. The post Traits ...

For more than a century, heredity has been framed through the tidy logic of Mendel’s pea plants: traits pass from parent to offspring by fixed genetic rules. But a new mouse study suggests that ...

A mouse experiment has revealed that one parent’s epigenetic methylation pattern can rewrite the matching gene inherited from ...