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Chronic pain often comes with other illnesses. Researchers have now shown that genetics can play a part in how likely you are to suffer.
Understanding how genes influence people’s behaviour doesn’t lead to fatalism.
It is an illness that runs in families – but there are other factors which go beyond inheritance.
Delivering twins is a balance between preventing pregnancy complications and the dangers of prematurity. New research suggests there is an optimum time.
Some students struggle because of biological constraints on learning. This can be overcome to an encouraging degree, but only with special and adequate resources.
Just because identical twins have exactly the same DNA, doesn’t mean they will have the same physical features.
A set of twins in Vietnam have been found to have different fathers.
A new study has found that having perseverance and long-term goals won’t boost a child’s exam results.
Children who tend to do well in one subject tend to do well in others, largely for genetic reasons.
Being bitten by mosquitoes may not be pleasant but they’re after your unique microbial fingerprint.
Study finds identical twins more likely to vote the same way – unless they back the Lib Dems.
DNA profiling is a powerful tool, but being faced with identical DNA from identical genes has been a problem - until now.
The idea that children can inherit the ability to get good results at school can spark heated debate. But, put simply, all this means is that children differ in how easy and enjoyable they find learning…
We live in the age of the genome. Hardly a week goes by without a story about how genes influence our health or behaviour. There has been recent excitement around new advances in the genetics of schizophrenia…
I disliked and feared maths for most of my school career and dropped it as soon as I possibly could. My mother recalls me crying as a five-year-old because: “I can’t do the people-on-the-bus sums”. If…
Hugo and Ross Turner are a pair of intrepid twins currently on an expedition to Greenland. One of them, Ross, is using the same style of equipment and facilities used by Ernest Shackleton 100 years ago…
Health professionals and parents appear to disagree about what determines children’s food preferences. While the former often take the view that healthy foods and the absence of “junk food” in the home…
There is a common misconception that genes are deterministic and that human potential is fixed at birth. This could not be further from the truth. We, as behavioural geneticists, see no evidence whatsoever…
Identical twins are nearly twice as likely to both faint compared to non identical twins. A study has revealed that the complex…
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Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow, King's College London
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Deputy Director, Twins Research Australia & Professor in Genetics and Cell Biology, Deakin University
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Professor of Psychology in Education, University of York
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Professor of Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London
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Professor of Child and Family Psychology, University of Sussex
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Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience Director, Colorado Learning Disabilities Research Centre, University of Colorado Boulder
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Reader in Ageing Research, King's College London
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King's College London
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Vice-Chancellor's GTA in Philosophy, University of Kent
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Reader in Behavioural Genetics, University of Bristol