Achondroplasia, also known as short-limb dwarfism, is associated with neurological symptoms and complications due to narrowing of the skeletal structures surrounding the spinal cord.

Researchers at the Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology have uncovered new evidence that two major types of gene-controlling DNA sequences, promoters and enhancers, operate with a shared ...

But new research is finding that these so-called "monogenic diseases" actually aren't caused by single gene mutations at all. In fact, plenty of perfectly healthy people are walking around with these ...