Nature Genetics

ScholarPeer’s latest research news and reporting from Nature Genetics. Nature Genetics is a peer-reviewed Nature Portfolio journal covering research in genetics, genomics, functional genomics, population genetics, and the genetic basis of human traits and disease. It publishes studies using genomic, computational, experimental, and population-based approaches to reveal how genetic variation shapes biology, evolution, health, and disease.

Visit Nature Genetics

A happy family with parents holding their baby daughter in a sunny park setting.

A Family-Based Tool Splits Autism Risk Into What Children Inherit and What Parents Build Around Them

A statistical framework called PGS-TRI reads DNA from a child and both parents to separate inherited autism risk from the influence of the family environment. Tested on 18,383 families, it validated existing genetic risk scores and mapped exactly where they fail.