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The 1950s elite was based on blood and, to a much larger extent, looks--things that are totally and overwhelmingly hereditary.
This mutation, common among families with hereditary ovarian cancer, is a frameshift mutation occurring at the beginning of the C 3 HC 4 region of exon 2 that essentially interrupts RING domain function [ 19 29 30 ] . The results showed that disruption of the BRCA1 amino-terminal RING domain altered caspase 3 activation and subsequent DFF45 and PARP cleavage, resulting in accelerated STS-induced apoptosis.
But outside Venice, Italians did not begin to adopt hereditary surnames until the 14th and 15th centuries, a bit later than most of the rest of Europe, according to Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges, authors of the addictive A Dictionary of Surnames (Oxford University Press, 1988).
The process of understanding genetic disease typically proceeds through three stages: first, recognition of the disease state or syndrome including its hereditary character; second, discovery and mapping of the related mutation(s); and third, elucidation of the biochemical/biophysical mechanism leading to the disease phenotype.
3-MGC aciduria is a rare hereditary organic aciduria characterized by increased urinary excretion of 3-MGC and 3-MGR acids.