heritable

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It is also one of the most heritable of all mental disorders, suggesting that genetic factors play an important role in development of the disease.
它也是所有精神疾病中遺傳傾向最明顯的疾病之一，說明遺傳因素在該病的發(fā)展中起著重要的作用。
That personality, along with intelligence, is at least partly heritable is becoming increasingly clear; so, presumably, the tendency to be happy or miserable is, to some extent, passed on through DNA.
人們?cè)絹碓角宄恼J(rèn)識(shí)到，性格和才智，至少部分是具有遺傳性的。所以假設(shè)樂觀與悲觀的傾向在某種程度上通過基因傳遞著。
The results would not just be interesting but useful in areas such as heritable diseases.
研究結(jié)果不能僅僅有趣而且必須有用，比如在遺傳病方面。

Several thousand human genes are linked, when they fail to work properly, to more than 4, 000 heritable genetic diseases.
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Epigenetic changes are heritable changes to the regulation of a cell's genes, caused by extra molecules being attached to those genes.
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Dr Drayna has already been involved in a twin study which revealed that the perception of musical pitch is highly heritable.
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A heritable disease or characteristic can be passed from a parent or grandparent to a child through the genes.