However, a growing number of Americans are leaving their brains to science in Federally financed tissue banks devoted to the study of nervous system disorders, particularly those with suspected hereditary links.

Each year in an important ceremony, the emperor plants rice in a symbolic field, reinforcing his role as the hereditary link between the Japanese people and their Shinto gods.

Over a lifetime, 1 person in 20 in the United States gets colorectal cancer; three-fourths have no known hereditary link.

But Dr. Kinzer said people with no hereditary link who have unusually high numbers of polyps might also wish to be tested to see if they bear the trait.

These "new men" were military figures, usually with weak hereditary links to the West Saxon royal house that Cnut had deposed.

The fire was particularly devastating for a university geneticist, Dr. Jan Rapacz, who has spent 28 years cross-breeding swine, looking for a hereditary link to the production of cholesterol.

It is preferable, but not essential, that the Commander or Chief has some type of hereditary link to a past Chief and lives in Scotland.

Doctors have not yet determined whether the familial cancers occur because of a hereditary link or because of dietary or environmental factors that could affect family members while they live together.

Only politician with some sort of hereditary link to Macdonald, they reasoned, could have succeeded so magnificently in basing his assumption of power on a direct appeal to the people.

Despite near universal agreement that there is some hereditary link, no genes have been identified and no prenatal test exists to warn prospective parents of this devastating disability.