A new type of cat coat color has officially been discovered. Named salmiak, or ‘salty liquorice,’ the cats have hair strands that start out black, and become white the further they grow from the ...

A new study from deCODE genetics and collaborators is the first to uncover a strong recessive component in Alzheimer's disease. deCODE genetics/Amgen, and collaborators from Iceland, U.S., UK ...

In its simplest form, a test cross is an experimental cross of an individual organism of dominant phenotype but unknown genotype and an organism with a homozygous recessive genotype (and phenotype).

The relationship of genotype to phenotype is rarely as simple as the dominant and recessive patterns described by Mendel. As opposed to partial dominance, codominance occurs when the phenotypes of ...

Researchers have carried out the most extensive and varied investigation to date regarding the role that recessive genetic ...

Recessive traits may skip generations and will affect both genders equally. An example of an autosomal recessive condition is cystic fibrosis. Cystic fibrosis close cystic fibrosisA disorder that ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Persistence is in Anne Wojcicki’s DNA. The co-founder of 23andMe, an innovative at-home genetic testing ...