inherited disease

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"The only step to really improve the life of patients with inherited disease is to find out what the primary cause is. We now can attack the effects of this mutation potentially at multiple levels."

From Science Daily • Apr. 29, 2024

Jason Diaz said at a news conference Wednesday that he was diagnosed with the inherited disease at 32, had his stomach removed and has been treated with chemotherapy.

From Washington Post • Mar. 1, 2023

The inherited disease leads to the loss of nerve cells involved in walking, crawling, sitting, breathing and swallowing.

From BBC • Nov. 18, 2021

Kyra, who has sickle cell, had suffered a devastating stroke — her second — a common complication of this inherited disease, which afflicts 100,000 Americans, most of them Black.

From Seattle Times • May 23, 2021

We have now reached the close of a melancholy history—that of the extinction, in a space of less than twenty-six years, of a bright life foredoomed by inherited disease.

From Life of John Keats by Rossetti, William Michael