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Could disease be the product of heritable genetic variation?

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In fact, molecular biologists believe that neurodivergent conditions arise due to a combination of heritable and environmental factors.

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Prenatal genome editing sits within the broader spectrum of human genome editing, which ranges from germline, where the changes are heritable, to somatic cell, where the patient’s descendants won’t inherit the changes.

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Coffee drinking is a heritable habit, and one that carries a certain amount of genetic baggage.

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To say of the settlers — all of them — that “violence had become part of their DNA” is to approach a glib argument about heritable evil.

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