The consortium representing the Jewish genetic disorders is comprised of the support groups who best understand what being affected with Gaucher disease really means on a very personal level.

Less than a year after 23andMe settled a lawsuit over a data breach which targeted Jewish clients, the company announced it ...

As he and his predecessors in the field of Jewish genetics have pointed out, the stakes in these genetic discoveries about Jews are high—a genetic demonstration of Middle Eastern origins that ...

Elana Frank, CEO and founder of the nonprofit Jewish Fertility Foundation (JFF), is on a mission to combat those numbers and ...

Sensitive genetic information – including that of many Ashkenazi Jews – will hit the market as the once thriving firm files ...

As a general principle, Jewish law believes that couples ... One might argue that known genetic carriers of a disease may choose to conceive naturally and abort the fetus if in utero tests ...

Community partners are hosting a community conversation on hereditary health risks and genetic screenings, titled “What’s In Your Genes? A Conversation about Jewish Genetic Screenings,” on April 6, ...

Researchers studying over 2,000 Ashkenazi Jewish centenarians uncovered two rare IGF-1 gene variants linked to exceptional ...

Israel's Health Ministry mistakenly excluded a genetic disease from the official list of conditions tested for in state-funded prenatal genetic testing, potentially affecting thousands of couples ...

One in six couples in the Jewish community suffers from infertility. Factors such as genetic disorders and biology put Jews at a much higher risk of being infertile compared with the national average.

The Norton & Elaine Sarnoff Center for Jewish Genetics is a community resource for education about Jewish genetic disorders and hereditary cancers, access to expertise, and a subsidized recessive ...