hereditary disease
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Haemochromatosis is a hereditary disease that causes a dangerous build-up of iron in the body and if left untreated can lead to liver cancer and arthritis.
From BBC • Feb. 3, 2026
Harrington told the Journal the example shows that significant numbers of couples globally face difficult choices about biological children and hereditary disease, and he wasn’t suggesting a starting point for clinical use.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 9, 2025
At an adaptive sports session early this year, the group made contact with Walt Raineri, a former paralympian in sailing with retitnitus pigmentosa — a hereditary disease that attacks the retinas.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 2025
In recent years, for example, a hundred patients suffering from the hereditary disease sickle cell anaemia have been treated with CRISPR-Cas-based therapeutics -- without AZD7648.
From Science Daily • Dec. 4, 2024
There are some people in the world now, who, knowing the possibility of afflicting offspring with hereditary disease, have lived in ascetic celibacy.
From Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch by Lane, Mary E. Bradley
