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It is also one of the most heritable of all mental disorders, suggesting that genetic factors play an important role in development of the disease.
它也是所有精神疾病中遗传倾向最明显的疾病之一，说明遗传因素在该病的发展中起着重要的作用。
That personality, along with intelligence, is at least partly heritable is becoming increasingly clear; so, presumably, the tendency to be happy or miserable is, to some extent, passed on through DNA.
人们越来越清楚的认识到，性格和才智，至少部分是具有遗传性的。所以假设乐观与悲观的倾向在某种程度上通过基因传递着。
The results would not just be interesting but useful in areas such as heritable diseases.
研究结果不能仅仅有趣而且必须有用，比如在遗传病方面。

Several thousand human genes are linked, when they fail to work properly, to more than 4, 000 heritable genetic diseases.
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Epigenetic changes are heritable changes to the regulation of a cell's genes, caused by extra molecules being attached to those genes.
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Dr Drayna has already been involved in a twin study which revealed that the perception of musical pitch is highly heritable.
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A heritable disease or characteristic can be passed from a parent or grandparent to a child through the genes.