All news on the topic: Genetics

A very small percentage of people around the world have this defective gene that has a pretty handy side effect

Eight year-old Arthur Manners has a one in 100 million genetic condition which affects his development and health - and has decided to raise a huge £300,000 to save his school swimming pool

Jack Trudel, five, was diagnosed with Duchenne's Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) at birth - a muscle wasting condition that causes progressive muscle weakness, and his mum says it's a "death sentence"

Lexi Ducker, from Warrington, Cheshire, is one of only around 200 people in the world diagnosed with Barakat syndrome, a genetic condition characterised by sensorineural deafness

Sisters Maryam and Mia were born in September 2020 with dozens of fractures, and bones "like eggshells" they were eventually diagnosed with Osteogenesis Imperfecta

Montana rancher Arthur 'Jack' Schubarth, 80, admitted to illegally breeding 'giant' hybrid sheep using tissue and testicles from wild sheep to sell them to private hunting preserves in Texas

Lucas and Aiden Pickerill died weeks apart after doctors diagnosed them with extremely rare genetic disorder NRROS - which saw them lose key developmental skills and regress to newborns

The Bajau tribe have lived off the coast of Indonesia for more than 1,000 years, living in houseboats and freediving to hunt underwater with spears

Olivia Farnsworth's unique condition is known as chromosome 6 deletion and leaves the youngster with 'no sense of danger' and the ability to go days without sleeping or eating

Grace Bucknell-Smith was diagnosed with hereditary spastic paraplegia and KIF1a - genetic conditions which cause stiffness of the legs - and left her falling over up to 30 times a day

Nicola Kelleher's partner Bradley Benjamin has a hereditary kidney disease which has seen him suffer on dialysis for years - and they didn't want the same outcome for their child

Sam Barley, from Lincolnshire, has learned to embrace his wacky head of hair which stands on end due to ultra-rare Uncontrollable Hair Syndrome believed to have afflicted Albert Einstein

Humans have the genes to grow hair all over their bodies like chimpanzees but evolution has disabled them, according to new findings which could lead to new ways of regrowing hair after balding