Heritable quantitative trait articles from across Nature Portfolio

A new study in Cell uses epigenome engineering to confer transgenerational inheritance of DNA methylation states and metabolic traits in mice.

A recent study in Science demonstrates how capturing gene expression over a developmental time course enables the discovery of dynamic expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs) that would otherwise be challenging to find.

Using a systems genetics approach, a new study identifies genetic variants and proteins associated with plasma and hepatic lipid abundance and hepatic lipotoxicity.

A study in Nature Genetics reports the first genome-wide significant loci for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder and implicates biologically informative genes, such as FOXP2, as contributors to its aetiology.

This Comment discusses how data from smartphones or wearables could be used for behavioural phenotyping, knowledge that may help to reveal the genetic and environmental contributions to disease-related behavioural variation.