Preterm birth (PTB), a leading cause of neonatal morbidity and mortality, arises from complex maternal-fetal interactions with multifactorial origins. Emerging evidence suggests that epigenetic ...

The microbiome, encompassing the genetic material of all the microorganisms associated with a host organism, has an evolutionary potential that has been overlooked in the prevailing paradigm of the ...

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Schizophrenia is a common mental disorder with a complex pattern of inheritance. Despite a large number of studies in the past decades, its molecular etiology remains unknown. In this study, we ...

Mammalian mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is thought to be strictly maternally inherited. 1,2 Sperm mitochondria disappear in early embryogenesis by selective destruction, inactivation, or simple dilution ...