The Genetics Of Mental Health

A major new genome wide association study published in the journal Science has significant new findings related to mental health. The core f...

Environmental Factors Influence IQ

There has been a great deal of skepticism expressed that education has any impact on IQ, but a large meta-analysis of research studies sugge...

Healthy Obese People And Unhealthy Thin Ones

One of the main reasons that being fat (e.g. having high BMI) is bad for you is that it screws with your metabolism.  A new paper directly ...

Crime May Not Be Genetic But It Is Significantly Hereditary

The lede here is the striking insight of the story. We don't know with any certainty how strongly genetic influences are on a person...

Fragmentary Facts and Hypotheses About Identity And More

This post will proceed to set forth some facts and some factually supported theories that are related to each other, without necessarily ass...

ASGH 2017 Abstracts

The abstracts of the conference presentations at the American Society of Human Genetics Conference in Orlando, Florida for 2017 which is cur...

Indigenous Peoples' Day

It is officially Indigenous Peoples' Day in Denver. (Accompanied by a snow storm and freezing temperatures following a 75 degree and sun...