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heritable adjective alienable, assignable, bestowable, consignable, conveyable, devisable, givable, hereditable, hereditary, inheritable, negotiable, testamentary, transferable, transmissible
Associated concepts: bequest, curtesy, devise, dower, intessate succession laws, legacy, testamentary gift
See also: bequest, hereditament, hereditary
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The biggest cause of dementia, Alzheimer's has a strong heritability -- nearly one in four cases are believed to have a genetic cause -- but precisely which genes are to blame and how their fiendish mechanism works remain elusive.
Gene trawl boosts hope in fight against Alzheimer's by AFP / AFP Global Edition
When you are trying to measure your own or perhaps the intelligence of your child, you might want to take into consideration the fact that heritability is always there as a factor that can and will influence the development of the intelligence of a child and while high heritability may be a factor in a child or someone attaining high scores, it does not mean that the environment around them will have no effect on their own personal development.
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The suicide of Nicholas Hughes, the son of the famed poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, not only has led to much conjecture and age-old questions about heritability of depression.
Fink! Still at large: a recent suicide raises questions about the ... by Clinical Psychiatry News
 
 
 
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