The phrase "a heritable disease" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing diseases that can be passed down from one generation to another through genetic inheritance.
Example: "Cystic fibrosis is an example of a heritable disease that affects the respiratory and digestive systems."
Alternatives: "an inherited condition" or "a genetic disorder".
Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) is a heritable disease occurring in one out of every 20,000 births.
It came about almost entirely because of the enthusiasm of a then newly appointed crossbencher, Lord Walton of Detchant, who was a neurologist especially concerned with the condition of Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a heritable disease for which there was no cure.
Furthermore, if cells from a person with a heritable disease, like sickle-cell disease, are used, it may be possible to generate an animal with the same disease for further experimentation or for testing to ensure drug safety before use in humans.
An endophenotype is a genetic-epidemiological concept which aims to group behavioral symptoms into more clear-cut phenotypes of a heritable disease.
Avise describes the MMBID, The Metabolic and Molecular Bases of Inherited Disease, a reference work of 255 chapters, each of which is about a heritable disease caused by mutation in a coding sequence.
And mitochondrial replacement will be employed to avoid transmission of a heritable disease.
Family, twins and epidemiological studies unequivocally demonstrate that BPD is a highly heritable disease with a heritability of more than 85%, and involves the interaction of multiple genes or more complex genetic mechanisms [ 11- 13].
Absence epilepsy (AE) is a complex, heritable disease characterized by a brief disruption of normal behavior and accompanying spike wave discharges (SWD) on the electroencephalogram.
Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a familial, heritable disease specified by syndesmophyte formation leading to an ankylosed spine.
It is observed that the heritability values reported in different studies vary from each other, as the value is population related.The range of heritability values are shown in Figure 6, from which it is observed that Central Corneal Thickness is the most heritable trait while PM spans a wider range due to its population dependence, and cataract seems a less heritable disease.
Reports on high syndrome concordance amongst first-degree relatives of 30% (Marini et al., 2004) and very high monozygous concordance reported by twin studies support a major heritable disease component (Vadlamudi et al., 2004; Corey et al., 2011).
