inherited disease

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Whileexposure to a single substance like DDT has been shown to create inherited disease susceptibility, a recent study in animals found exposure to multiple different toxicants across generations can amplify those health problems.

From Science Daily • Jan. 23, 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

Jason Diaz said at a news conference Wednesday that he was diagnosed with the inherited disease at 32, had his stomach removed and has been treated with chemotherapy.

From Washington Post • Mar. 1, 2023

Kyra, who has sickle cell, had suffered a devastating stroke — her second — a common complication of this inherited disease, which afflicts 100,000 Americans, most of them Black.

From Seattle Times • May 23, 2021

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

From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) by Darwin, Charles