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.
transitive verb. 1 :  to yield control or possession of : surrender forced to give up his job. 2 : to desist from : abandon refused to give up her efforts. 3 : to declare incurable or insoluble. 4a : to abandon (oneself) to a particular feeling, influence, or activity gave himself up to despairb : to devote to a particular purpose or use. 5 : to despair of seeing we'd given you up. 6 : to allow (a hit or run in baseball) while pitching.