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predisposition

[pree-dis-puh-zish-uhn, pree-dis-] / priˌdɪs pəˈzɪʃ ən, ˌpri dɪs- /


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But a genetic predisposition and family history aren’t the only causes of a dissection.

From MarketWatch Jul. 13, 2026

Breast cancer isn’t just a ‘pink’ disease; for men with a family history or genetic predisposition, a mammogram can be a lifesaving tool that overrides social stigma.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 10, 2026

Your ideal rise time is linked to your chronotype, your genetic predisposition to waking at a certain time.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 11, 2026

Genetic predisposition increases disease risk in certain populations.

From Science Daily Nov. 17, 2025

For a while she’d struggled against her predisposition.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

Bonta said the failure resulted in a 2023 data breach which exposed genetic predispositions and risk factors of nearly seven million users, plus information about biological relatives, ancestry, and ethnicity.

From BBC May 28, 2026

In the 1990s, teams of scientists — supported at least in part by NIH funding — tracked down the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes responsible for inherited predispositions to breast and other cancers.

From Los Angeles Times May 28, 2025

Certain people, because of their predispositions, tend to see the glass as being half full or half empty to begin with.

From Salon Apr. 14, 2025

To explore these mechanisms, Kozorovitskiy and her team developed a new experiment to induce acute sleep loss in mice that did not have genetic predispositions related to human mood disorders.

From Science Daily Nov. 2, 2023

But our psychological predispositions pro or con must not mislead us.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan




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