hereditary

The back-up plan is worrying for Ms Cox, who has an autoimmune disease, and her husband, who has hereditary cardiovascular disease.

He told reporters Tuesday that his struggles with blood clots are hereditary.

It can also be hereditary, with about one in eight people with the condition having a genetic link.

Galton “advocated the regulation of marriage and family size according to hereditary endowment of parents,” Gould noted in his classic 1981 book “The Mismeasure of Man.”

Last year, MPs backed plans to get rid of hereditary peers from the House of Lords.