Or maybe I'd passedalong a genetic predisposition that triggered Kitty's illness.
This genetic component is not inexorable, but reflects a predisposition that renders some people significantly more vulnerable to alcoholism than others.
He said that the couple loves Washington, D.C. Noah Rojas-Derr, another gay wedding planner, pointed out that many gay men do — a predisposition that will come in handy should the case, as is expected, proceed to the Supreme Court.
But he believes that in many cases there is an underlying genetic predisposition that responds to environmental stimuli in such a way that once-normal behavior turns into something pathological.
More than 200 Ph.D. scientists are already at work at the Huntsman Cancer Institute, many of them concentrating on the question of nurture vs. nature — environment or genetic predisposition — that has confounded the best minds of science since the days of Crick and Salk.
Michael Madden, an expert on the North Korean leadership and contributor to the 38 North website said: "Based on his gait, it appears he has gout - something (due to) diet and genetic predisposition that has affected other members of the Kim family".
Smith clearly explains why many cognitive scientists believe this tendency is innate and then links it to another predisposition that seems "built in" to the human mind: our inclination to see living things in hierarchies, as in the "great chain of being" of medieval European Christians, with God at its perfect top, human beings above "higher" animals, and so on down to worms and plants.
Researchers agree that innate innovativeness is a predisposition that is correlated with risk taking, impulsivity, and using new products/services over previous consumption patterns (Venkatesan 1973).
They were viewed as additional "genetic predisposition that led to disease" in the affected and not the unaffected member of the twin pair.
The results also identify variants in the unaffected twin as fragment of genetic predisposition that are not sufficient to manifest the disease.
