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.

While we inherit genes from both parents, certain traits are more strongly influenced by paternal genetics. From the way you look to aspects of your health, your father’s DNA plays a major role in ...

Bad memory? Poor sleep habits? These inherited traits may come from your parents. But who's to blame? Here's what the science says. Do you have your mom’s button nose? Did your dad pass on the curse ...

Analysis of UK Biobank data has provided evidence of dominance effects in human traits, revealing 183 gene loci associated with phenotypes that exhibit dominant and recessive patterns of inheritance, ...

Most people know that inherited traits between generations is a genetic process, but a new study says other inheritable mechanisms may exist. Scientists at the University of Toronto studying the ...

The Augustinian friar Gregor Mendel completed his groundbreaking work on genetic inheritance more than 160 years ago, after carefully studying seven traits in peas, including the shape and colour of ...