"gene" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- That gene would only predispose a person to addiction if they choose to start using a drug in the first place.
- Some people with a gene predisposing them to tremor may not develop it until they are in their 70's; others will be affected far earlier.
- The genes also predispose people to a variety of other types of cancer.
- When inherited in a mutated form, the newly detected gene strongly predisposes men to prostate cancer.
- Our genes can predispose us to believe," he writes, "but they don't tell us what to believe in.
- Will some racial and ethnic groups be given short shrift, since minorities often have unusual genes predisposing them to rarer disorders?
- One first step to identifying genes predisposing to CD is to investigate candidate genes.
- From analysis of family pedigrees, epidemiologists have identified several sites on human chromosomes where genes predisposing toward schizophrenia are thought to lie.
- From their analysis of these data, the investigators found that the gene in the fetus predisposed it to develop a cleft palate if the mother smoked.
- Twin studies, adoption studies, and artificial selection studies have shown that a person's genes can predispose them to developing alcoholism.
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