hereditary disease
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"Is it just a matter of whether to define hereditary disease as a disease?"
From BBC • Dec. 18, 2025
They are working toward creating a child born from an embryo edited to prevent a hereditary disease.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 9, 2025
At an adaptive sports session early this year, the group made contact with Walt Raineri, a former paralympian in sailing with retitnitus pigmentosa — a hereditary disease that attacks the retinas.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 2025
Although people of African ancestry are most frequently and severely affected by this hereditary disease, its genetic underpinnings in this population have rarely been studied.
From Science Daily • Jan. 18, 2024
I should look upon it as an hereditary disease and leave it at that!
From The Dark Tower by Soper, J. H. Gardner
