variants
also genetical
as in hereditary
genetically passed or capable of being passed from parent to offspring
hemophilia and other genetic medical disorders
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Recent Examples of genetic
The filing raises privacy concerns for consumers about their sensitive genetic information and how that may be protected, Attorney General Anthony Brown said in a consumer alert issued by his office.
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Michelle Deal-Zimmerman, Baltimore Sun, 27 Mar. 2025
The genetic record is too incomplete to draw detailed conclusions about the timeline, Castiglione notes.
—Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 27 Mar. 2025
Virginia is one of a handful of states that has a genetic data privacy law (it was enacted in 2023).
—Karri Peifer, Axios, 27 Mar. 2025
My own lab is working on this approach for progeria [a rare genetic condition that causes children to age prematurely].
—Alice Park, TIME, 20 Mar. 2025
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Michelle Deal-Zimmerman, Baltimore Sun, 27 Mar. 2025
The genetic record is too incomplete to draw detailed conclusions about the timeline, Castiglione notes.
—Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 27 Mar. 2025
Virginia is one of a handful of states that has a genetic data privacy law (it was enacted in 2023).
—Karri Peifer, Axios, 27 Mar. 2025
My own lab is working on this approach for progeria [a rare genetic condition that causes children to age prematurely].
—Alice Park, TIME, 20 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for genetic
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“Genetic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/genetic. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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