Behavioral similarities between parents and their offspring are less marked than is often suggested, a new study shows. People are only slightly more likely to share personality traits with their ...

The habits we pick up from our parents are not always obvious. While many family traits help us grow into kind and capable adults, others can quietly shape the way we think, communicate, and handle ...

It has long been known that environmental conditions can shape how traits are inherited, a phenomenon known as transgenerational epigenetic inheritance. However, the molecular signals responsible for ...

The blueprint of who we are begins with the genes passed down from our parents. While these inherited traits give us our eye color and height, they can also contain instructions that increase our risk ...

The human genome may have been sequenced, but we are still learning about how it works. One of the features of the genome scientists are still deciphering is epigenetics, which refers to the various ...

Forget nature versus nurture, new research on twins hints at a crack in the conventional view that environment and genes combine to influence our traits. “Environment makes twins different – that’s ...