Mom and Dad not equally to blame for some bad genes

Depending which parent passes on a trait, disease risk could go up or down

Great. Just in time for the holidays, researchers are fueling the debate about which side of the family is responsible for your more undesirable traits.

Genetic variations can either contribute to disease risk, or help protect against disease, depending on which parent passes along the variant, researchers at deCODE genetics in Iceland and colleagues report in the Dec.