inherited disease

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"The only step to really improve the life of patients with inherited disease is to find out what the primary cause is. We now can attack the effects of this mutation potentially at multiple levels."

From Science Daily • Apr. 29, 2024

The work could also inform modern medicine, if researchers can identify a genetically inherited disease and trace it back generations.

From Science Magazine • Oct. 4, 2023

The most infamous feud in American folklore, the long-running battle between the Hatfields and McCoys, may be partly explained by a rare, inherited disease that can lead to hair-trigger rage and violent outbursts.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 4, 2023

These are people with an inherited disease called phenylketonuria or PKU, who are born unable to metabolise the phenylalanine that is released as aspartame is broken down.

From BBC • Jul. 13, 2023

When we hear it said that a man carries in his constitution the seeds of an inherited disease, there is much truth in the expression.

From The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 2 by Darwin, Charles