Children with a family history of type 1 diabetes (T1D) have an increased risk of developing the disease. However, children born to mothers with T1D are less likely to develop the disease than those ...

A mother's genetics may play a bigger role in determining whether a child becomes overweight than a father's, as a result of a concept known as genetic nurture, finds a new study led by UCL ...

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Thanks to advances in imaging and diagnostic technologies, clinicians can now detect many genetic disorders in the womb, ...

About 50 percent of pregnancies fail, and one of the main reasons is aneuploidy, a genetic condition in which cells do not have the correct number of chromosomes. 1 Aneuploidy commonly arises when ...

Mothers leave their mark on their children in many ways - and researchers have discovered a protein called SMCHD1 is involved in this 'imprinting' process. SMCHD1 switches certain genes off, altering ...

Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease in which the body destroys its own insulin-producing beta-cells in the pancreas, leaving patients with a lifelong dependency on external insulin. Children ...