In recent years, advances in molecular genetics have impacted the understanding and the classification of hereditary retinal and optic nerve disease perhaps more than any other group of eye diseases.

A critical goal in genetics and evolution is predicting the effects of mutations that may happen in the future and inferring the effects of those that happened in the past. To make these predictions, ...

For over a century, biologists have had to contend with a complicated picture of genetics, which they’ve only recently begun to understand. Does an unseen force lurk within genetics? Biologists have ...