The World Health Organization offers information about genetic predisposition to several common diseases, including cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and asthma. Genetic Alliance UK offers a fact sheet on genetic predisposition to common genetic diseases.enetic variations can have large or small effects on the likelihood of developing a particular disease. For example, certain mutations in the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes greatly increase a personâs risk of developing breast cancer and ovarian cancer.
Relinquish definition, to renounce or surrender (a possession, right, etc.): to relinquish the throne. See more.
verb (used with object), repatriated, repatriating. 1. to bring or send back (a person, especially a prisoner of war, a refugee, etc.) to his or her country or land of citizenship. 2. (of profits or other assets) to send back to one's own country. verb (used without object), repatriated, repatriating.