Each year, one and half million Americans will be diagnosed with some form of cancer. If you or a loved one are among them, understanding th...

For years, stuttering has been blamed on bad parenting or anxiety and other emotional factors, but new genetic research shows that stutterin...

Cancer doesn't discriminate, and anyone can get this disease. However, some factors can increase your likelihood of developing cancer.

You know what cancer is, and the odds are good that someone you care about has been affected by the disease. But what does cancer do to the ...

Birth defects occur in 1 in 33 babies. These disabilities can be structural defects, like cleft lips and spina bifida, or genetic defects li...

Researchers in the CPEA Network and their colleagues around the world have learned a lot about autism through genetic studies, but they stil...

In 1999, NICHD-supported scientists discovered that most girls with Rett syndrome have a change in the pattern of a single gene the Methyl-C...

In more than 99.9 percent of cases of Rett syndrome, the genetic mutation is spontaneous, meaning that it occurs randomly. Random mutations ...

Some birth defects, like Down syndrome and dwarfism, are evident at birth. Others, like PKU, sickle cell anemia and congenital hypothyroidis...

From sickle cell anemia to dwarfism, many birth defects are due to gene mutation. To understand genetic defects, it helps to have an idea of...