These findings suggest that sedentary lifestyle may enhance the predisposition to elevated adiposity, whereas greater leisure time physical activity may mitigate the genetic association [ 21].
If a genetic predisposition to psychopathy is a risk factor, the logic goes, that risk might be mitigated by environmental influences — the same way that diet can be used to lower an inherited risk for heart disease.
Is it a predisposition to be feckless and lazy?
Do adolescents have a kind of predisposition to drug addiction?
"It may produce a physiological predisposition to better sleeping".
Genomic research can spot all kinds of predispositions -- so why not a predisposition to react to a skin cream or pollutant?
It derives from the ability to attach a cultural predisposition to a visible condition: skin color.
Some states allow prosecutions as long as there was a "predisposition" to the conduct.
"I ignored the fact that I had a genetic predisposition to breast cancer".
The task for defense lawyers is made more complicated by human predisposition to sympathize with children.
