Example sentences for: hereditary

How can you use “hereditary” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Mutations in this gene account for 60% of hereditary ovarian cancers [ 1 ] . Loss of heterozygosity in this gene occurs in 30-70% of sporadic ovarian carcinomas [ 2 ] . Species homology studies have shown that while the entire 22 exon gene is poorly conserved, the terminal ends maintain over an 80% homology between rat, human and mouse [ 3 ] . BRCA1 has long been known to function in DNA repair.

  • The appeal is not to the House of Lords, with its mixture of hereditary and appointed-for-life peers (the hereditary part is soon to be swept away by New Labor).

  • Point mutations in conserved regions of these proteins can be expected to cause missense mutations and translational truncations that will also lead to hereditary spastic paraplegia.

  • Yet Poniatowski recovered to preside over a reform movement that precipitated the creation of the 1791 Constitution, which restored the hereditary monarchy and overhauled Poland’s political system.

  • Consider too that there are wizards born of muggles and muggles born of wizards, so that having magical power (like being gay, at least according to some schools of thought) is, while not hereditary, clearly innate.


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