Inheritance is the passing of traits from parents to offspring. Our modern understanding of inheritance comes from a set of principles proposed by Austrian monk and researcher Gregor Mendel in 1865.

The year was 1900. Three European botanists — one Dutch, one German and one Austrian — all reported results from breeding experiments in plants. Each claimed that they had independently discovered ...

Introduction to Mendelian randomization, the problems with using traditional observational studies to investigate causality, and Randomized controlled trials as the gold standard for causal research.

In the current Archives of General Psychiatry, George Uhl and Robert Grow from the National Institutes of Health compile an overview of the known genetic components of major brain diseases and then ...