However, for those select few who possess the predisposition...

Is this just a genetic thing with you? Is it congenital?

So the genome really tells you much more about predisposition.

We have a strong predisposition towards protecting what we feel is ours.

What he had was an extreme form of a condition called congenital adrenal hyperplasia.

There are also some children who are born without arms, called congenital limb deficiency.

Lots of risk factors, but there is a genetic predisposition to prostate cancer.

Unlike the legacy of inherited predisposition to addictive behavior or substances this needs no genetic assistance.

The whites that you see in the middle of his pupils are congenital cataracts, so opacities of the lens.

So over time if a person doesn't have the right diet, or maybe they just have a predisposition to it, you can have these things called plaques form on the walls of the arteries.

And also, in light of several studies showing important roles of commensal microbes in a variety of biological processes from nutrition and immunity to now brain and behavior, consider all the things that we do on a day to day basis (Laughter) to change or disrupt our microbiome and how this might affect our health and predisposition to disease.