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HERITABLE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Capable of being inherited
Example:
an inheritable title
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
ancestral; hereditary; patrimonial; transmissible (inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent)
familial; genetic; hereditary; inherited; transmissible; transmitted (occurring among members of a family usually by heredity)
monogenic (of or relating to an inheritable character that is controlled by a single pair of genes)
polygenic (of or relating to an inheritable character that is controlled by several genes at once; of or related to or determined by polygenes)
inheriting (having the legal right to inherit)
nee ((meaning literally 'born') used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman)
Context examples:
A missense mutation abnormality may be heritable or occur spontaneously.
(Missense Mutation Abnormality, NCI Thesaurus)
The GRK4 gene is associated with both heritable and acquired hypertension.
(GRK4 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
Heritable defects in the GRK1 gene cause Oguchi disease 2.
(GRK1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
Multiple mutation abnormalities may be heritable or occur spontaneously.
(Multiple Nucleotide Abnormalities, NCI Thesaurus)
Heritable sensitive regions of chromosomes which show up in vitro as non-staining bands.
(Chromosome Fragile Site, NCI Thesaurus)
A new study conducted at OHSU in Portland, Oregon, concludes that while individually unique, each connectotype demonstrates both familial and heritable relationships.
(Brain Activity Is Inherited, May Inform Treatment for ADHD, Autism, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The ability to remember faces varies among people, and these differences are partly heritable.
(Oxytocin affects facial recognition, NIH)
A nucleotide transversion abnormality may be heritable or occur somatically.
(Nucleotide Transversion Abnormality, NCI Thesaurus)
A nucleotide transition abnormality may be heritable or occur somatically.
(Nucleotide Transition Abnormality, NCI Thesaurus)
This abnormality can be either heritable or occur somatically.
(Adenosine to Cytosine Transversion Abnormality, NCI Thesaurus)
