Medically reviewed by Doru Paul, MD Key Takeaways A JAK2 mutation can make your body produce too many blood cells.  JAK2 ...

A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by scientists from Israel and Ghana shows that an evolutionarily significant mutation in the human APOL1 gene arises not ...

Researchers have created the first complete map showing how hundreds of mutations in a key cancer gene affect tumor growth. By testing every possible mutation in a critical hotspot, they found that ...

Global Burden of Thyroid Cancer in Adults Age 15-49 Years and Its Predictions: Findings From Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 We conducted whole-exome sequencing on 100 (N = 100) tumor-normal ...

The most common genetic cause of hereditary deafness in humans are mutations in the GJB2 gene, especially the 35delG and 235delC mutations. At the recent ARO meeting, researchers from Ear Nose and ...

Genetic mutations are the primary cause of most rare diseases. Although each condition affects a small fraction of the population, the global impact is significant, with an estimated 300 million ...