heritable

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"We hope this new technique of visualizing synaptic membrane dynamics in live brain tissue samples can help us understand similarities and differences in nonheritable and heritable forms of the condition," Watanabe says.

From Science Daily

They've reinforced an international consensus that it's premature to proceed with heritable genome editing.

From Salon

Studies suggest that it is a genetically heritable trait and that it can be cultivated through concerted interventions.

From Salon

If people with one heritable trait tend to mate with people with another heritable trait, then these two distinct characteristics will become genetically correlated to each other in subsequent generations.

From Salon

But common heritable diseases, such as diabetes, are more genetically complex than the ones Anderson and her colleagues screened for and are much more difficult to understand, Kaelin explains.

From Scientific American