I'm guessing that's why some of the SPY's dividends are unqualified. Page 34 of the same website contains the tax information for the DIA. The DIA paid $2.93 a share in 2008, all of which is qualified.
The mutated gene is passed down through a family, and each generation of children can inherit the gene that causes the disease. Rarely, one of these monogenic diseases can occur spontaneously in a child when his/her parents do not have the disease gene, or there is no history of the disease in the family.
Report Abuse. things like cancer cells cannot be passed on, that type of cell is aquired through life. The mutations that get passed on are the mutations in the gametes, so sperm cells in the case of males, and eggs in the case of females. You cannot pass on a mutation if it is acquired somehow throughout life.