genetic susceptibility
collocation in Englishmeaningsofgeneticandsusceptibility
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genetic
adjective
uk/dʒəˈnet.ɪk/us/dʒəˈnet̬.ɪk/
belonging or relating to genes (= parts of the DNA in cells) received by each animal or plant from ...
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susceptibility
noun
uk/səˌsep.təˈbɪl.ə.ti/us/səˌsep.təˈbɪl.ə.i/
the fact that someone or something can easily be influenced, harmed, ...
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At the within-flock level, we describe scrapie transmission using a stochastic model incorporating the available data on pathogenesis, sheep demography,geneticsusceptibilityand incubation times.
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Our results indicate that these risk-factor disorder associations cannot be due solely to the action ofgeneticsusceptibilityor familialbackground factors.
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The phenotypic variables assessed in this cohort may prove useful in elucidating thegeneticsusceptibilityto disease in several ways.
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Evidence of gene- gene interactions in thegeneticsusceptibilityto renal impairment after unilateral nephrectomy.
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Based on this evidence, we hypothesize that altered face processing ability might be a functional neural trait marker ofgeneticsusceptibilityto autism.
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Essentially, these can be classified as: (1)geneticsusceptibility, resistance and severity-modifying factors; and (2) environmental contributors to disease susceptibility, resistance and severity.
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These results raise the possibility that face processing might be a functional trait marker ofgeneticsusceptibilityto autism.
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The inspiration to test women with evidence of ageneticsusceptibilitycame from an obstetrician.
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Other possibilities include variations in antibiotic use, levels of poverty orgeneticsusceptibility.
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There are, however, no data indicating that certain ethnic groups have increasedgeneticsusceptibilityto activation of latent tuberculous infection.
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Althoughgeneticsusceptibilityis a key contributor to disease development, disease onset and phenotypic presentation are probably modified by complex environmental interplay.
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A patient wants to be tested forgeneticsusceptibilityto cardiovascular disease.
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Why, then, should we prohibit end-of-life discrimination based on ageneticsusceptibility?
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The basis for anygeneticsusceptibilityis not known.
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The disease affects homogeneous population groups in terms ofgeneticsusceptibility.
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Concordance among family members, however, has also introduced the possible role ofgeneticsusceptibilityin influencing such transmission.
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Life events had little impact in the absence ofgeneticsusceptibility, but did play an important role in causation when combined withgeneticsusceptibility.
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