A recent study reveals that exposure to air pollution before conception could have consequences on children's health.

Parents, and the home environments they create, can also have an important influence on a child's development; in fact, a child's home environment can affect the ways that certain genetic traits ...

Internal and external environmental factors, like gender and temperature, influence gene expression. Sex-limited traits are also autosomal. Unlike sex-influenced traits, whose expression differs ...

Children born in spring or summer with a specific gene variant may have a higher risk of celiac disease and lower levels of a ...