hereditary predisposition

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• hereditary predisposition — inborn tendency, inborn inclination, transmitted proneness …   English contemporary dictionary

• predisposition — A condition of special susceptibility to a disease. * * * pre·dis·po·si·tion .prē .dis pə zish ən n a condition of being predisposed <a hereditary predisposition to disease> pre·dis·po·si·tion·al əl adj * * * n. a tendency to be affected by …   Medical dictionary

• predisposition — n. a tendency to be affected by a particular disease or kind of disease. Such a tendency may be hereditary or may arise because of such factors as lack of vitamins, food, or sleep. See also: diathesis …   The new mediacal dictionary

• Psychiatric Genetics —    Since the eighteenth century, psychiatrists have suspected that family genetic history played something of a role in their patients’ illnesses. Articulated first as inheritance, then degeneration and eugenics, then finally after the Second… …   Historical dictionary of Psychiatry

• dystrophy — Progressive changes that may result from defective nutrition of a tissue or organ. SYN: dystrophia. [dys + G. trophe, nourishment] adiposogenital d. a disorder characterized primarily by obesity and hypogonadotrophic hypogonadism …   Medical dictionary

• genetics, human — ▪ biology Introduction       study of the inheritance of characteristics by children from parents. Inheritance in humans does not differ in any fundamental way from that in other organisms.       The study of human heredity occupies a central… …   Universalium

• BRCA-2 — Das Modell des BRCA2 Peptids BRCA2 (BReast CAncer 2, early onset; deutsch: Brustkrebs 2, Manifestation im Kindesalter), in einigen Publikationen auch als Brustkrebsgen 2 bezeichnet, ist ein menschliches Gen, welches zur Klasse der… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• BRCA2 — Das Modell des BRCA2 Peptids BRCA2 (BReast CAncer 2, early onset; deutsch: Brustkrebs 2, Manifestation im Kindesalter), in einigen Publikationen auch als Brustkrebsgen 2 bezeichnet, ist ein menschliches Gen, welches zur Klasse der… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• Brustkrebsgen 2 — Das Modell des BRCA2 Peptids BRCA2 (BReast CAncer 2, early onset; deutsch: Brustkrebs 2, Manifestation im Kindesalter), in einigen Publikationen auch als Brustkrebsgen 2 bezeichnet, ist ein menschliches Gen, welches zur Klasse der… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• speech disorder — n. any conspicuous speech imperfection, or variation from accepted speech patterns, caused either by a physical defect in the speech organs or by a mental disorder, as aphasia, stuttering, etc. * * * ▪ medicine Introduction       any of the… …   Universalium

• Protein BRCA2 — Masse/Länge Primärstruktur 3418 Aminosäuren …   Deutsch Wikipedia