inheritable

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After decades of research, gene therapies have begun reshaping the treatment of cancers and rare inheritable diseases with medicines that can modify or correct mutations embedded in people’s genetic code.

From Seattle Times

A man fathered 15 children after advertising his sperm on social media despite having an inheritable condition, a court has heard.

From BBC

“I don’t find it an obligatory connection. There are members of the family that say, as Henry Louis Gates says, guilt is not inheritable,” Pupke said.

From Washington Post

The ability to identify inheritable diseases aside, tying your identity to a double strand of chemical bases seems like risky business to me.

From Salon

No more attempting to learn which components allow viruses to efficiently infect or replicate within human cells, or to devise inheritable ways to evade immunity.

From Washington Post