Von Willebrand disease (VWD) is a bleeding disorder in which the blood does not clot as it should. Usually, people have VWD due to their genes, which may come from a male or female parent. Blood ...

In Mendelian inheritance patterns, you receive one version of a gene, called an allele, from each parent. These alleles can be dominant or recessive. Non-Mendelian genetics don’t completely follow ...

When leaving a substantial inheritance to a married adult child, how do you tell them not to commingle those funds with their spouse without it causing problems in their marriage? So far, my daughter ...

Dear Amy: My mother recently died, and I’m expecting a relatively substantial inheritance from her (my dad died several years ago). My younger brother, also not living, has two adult children. My ...

IN 1865, an Austrian monk called Gregor Mendel, working to understand hybridisation, uncovered exquisitely simple and reliable patterns of inheritance in varieties of garden pea. In 1900, the patterns ...

When leaving a substantial inheritance to a married adult child, how do you tell them not to commingle those funds with their spouse without it causing problems in their marriage? So far, my daughter ...