Sentence examples for an increased predisposition to from inspiring English sources
Diabetes, in particular, has become so common (affecting forty per cent of the population) that researchers think that many children, after exposure in the womb, are born with an increased predisposition to the disease.
Patients with the anomaly show an increased predisposition to dyspnea, recurrent respiratory infections and pulmonary haemorrhage.
Female athletes may be particularly susceptible to MDI because of an increased predisposition to joint hyperlaxity.
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a dysfunction of heart rhythm and represents an increased predisposition to ischemic stroke in AF patients.
Macrosomic infant was associated with an increased predisposition to develop overweight or obesity at the beginning of their childhood.
According to genetic studies, the acute stimulating effect of ethanol seems to be associated with an increased predisposition to consume large quantities of ethanol.
MSH6 mutations are rarer than mutations in the other two genes, being found in 10 20% of HNPCC cases, who often have an atypical presentation and increased predisposition to endometrial cancer (22, 23).
This cumulative societal sleep curtailment is significant, as sleep deprivation is associated with a number of metabolic consequences: increased predisposition to obesity (3) and insulin resistance (IR) (4) in both adults and children, increased risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in adults (5), and higher fasting glucose in young adults with preexisting diabetes (6).
Murine studies, however, demonstrated that simultaneous loss of Chfr and Mlh1 synergistically increased predisposition to cancer development, which implicates a more functional interaction [ 38].
In humans, germ-line mutations of these genes are associated with Rubinstein–Taybi syndrome, an autosomal dominant disorder characterized by physical abnormalities and mental retardation, and associated with increased predisposition to lymphoma.
Biallelic loss of PALB2 causes increased predisposition to cancers, increased sensitivity to DNA-damaging agents, and Fanconi anemia [ 8].
