February is American Heart Month, which is an appropriate time to learn how genetic testing can protect your family.

Karin Weiss, is carried by one in 80 Ashkenazi Jews ... The researchers used a special test that looks at the exome, a part of the DNA used for making proteins and where many genetic diseases ...

But the goal of Carmi’s team was “to fill the gaps in our understanding of Ashkenazi Jewish early history.” There are several non-destructive ways to obtain DNA from human remains ...

The genetic testing company 23andMe has agreed to ... published a link to a database labeled “ashkenazi DNA Data of Celebrities.” According to the lawsuit, the hacker referred to the list ...

The new findings contradict previous assertions that Ashkenazi mitochondrial lineages originated in the Near East, or from mass conversions to Judaism in the Khazar kingdom, an empire in the north ...