Susceptibility
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Their frequency is rather rare and certain mutations can be found only in distinct populations, but this class of
susceptibility
factors is associated with a moderately increased breast cancer risk.
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By increasing resiliency, we can dramatically reduce her
susceptibility
to depression and PTSD, possibly saving her from losing her job, her home, her family or even her life.
It propelled me to go on and to co-lead a team that discovered the first cancer
susceptibility
gene, and in the intervening decades since then, there has been literally a seismic shift in our understanding of what goes on, what genetic variations are sitting behind various diseases.
And thankfully, scientists like Dr. Page from the Whitehead Institute, who works on the Y chromosome, and Doctor Yang from UCLA, they have found evidence that tells us that those sex-determining chromosomes that are in every cell in our bodies continue to remain active for our entire lives and could be what's responsible for the differences we see in the dosing of drugs, or why there are differences between men and women in the
susceptibility
and severity of diseases.
Imagine that we could try to engineer humans that have enhanced properties, such as stronger bones, or less
susceptibility
to cardiovascular disease or even to have properties that we would consider maybe to be desirable, like a different eye color or to be taller, things like that.
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