heritable
adjective
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Synonyms
genetic (also genetical), hereditary, inborn, inheritable, inherited
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Strong support comes from the fact that our sensitivity to loneliness is heritable, like height or risk of diabetes — about 50 percent of an individual’s level of loneliness can be tied to their genes. — Quanta Magazine, "New Evidence for the Necessity of Loneliness," 10 May 2016 For instance, the National Academies report specifies that any editing of DNA should prevent a serious heritable disease. — Anna Groves, Discover Magazine, "Human Gene Editing is Controversial. Shoukhrat Mitalipov Isn't Deterred," 15 Apr. 2019 Jiankui, who did not publicly discuss his trial until news stories revealed details of it in November 2018, triggered an international push to step up oversight of human embryo studies that create heritable, DNA changes. — Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, "Russian geneticist answers challenges to his plan to make gene-edited babies," 13 June 2019 Sporns said the researchers are trying to answer questions such as whether there are heritable differences in the rich club structure and whether these structures change over a person’s lifetime. — Quanta Magazine, "In Brain’s ‘Rich Club,’ Meetings of the Mind," 24 Oct. 2013 Editing the genes of embryos is more contentious than altering the genes of adults because those changes are heritable and can be passed on to future generations. — Preetika Rana, WSJ, "WHO Reacts to Chinese Gene-Edited Twins With Plan for Global Guidelines," 21 Feb. 2019 Most scientists agree that genetic modification makes sense to prevents certain heritable diseases from being passed down. — Radhika Viswanathan, Vox, "3 biological parents, 1 child, and an international controversy," 24 July 2018 But knowing that traits are heritable is different from showing which actual differences in DNA are responsible for them. — Robert Plomin, WSJ, "Our Fortunetelling Genes," 15 Nov. 2018 Intelligence is heritable, and for a long time researchers assumed that people with high IQ scores would have kids that also scored above average. — Rory Smith, CNN, "IQ scores are falling and have been for decades, new study finds," 13 June 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'heritable.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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