我绝对不会想让个无辜的孩子继承我的眉毛和我的坏运气——是的，这个也是会遗传的——以及我的焦虑。
I would never curse some innocent child with my eyebrows, my bad luck (yes it has got to be genetic at this point), and my anxiety.
例如，对动物的研究表明，老鼠在怀孕期间经历压力会导致胎儿表观遗传发生变化，进而导致啮齿动物在成长过程中出现行为问题。
Studies of animals, for example, have shown that when a rat experiences stress during pregnancy, it can cause epigenetic changes in a fetus that lead to behavioral problems as the rodent grows up.
范康尼贫血症是由遗传缺陷引发的疾病，会导致骨髓功能衰竭，甚至更容易罹患癌症，例如血癌。
The disease is caused by a genetic defect that leads to bone marrow failure and a greater risk of cancers, such as leukaemia.
传统上，比方说我们为心脏病寻找遗传危险因子的时候，我们会假设通过血液能告诉我们组织中发生了什么事。
Traditionally when we have looked for genetic risk factors for, say, heart disease, we have assumed that the blood will tell us what's happening in the tissue.
采用这些新技术出生的婴儿会从父母身上继承婴儿的大部分遗传物质。
Babies born using the new technique would inherit most of their genetic material from their mother and father.
对于患有某些遗传疾病的人，其患白内障的风险可能也会增加。
People with certain genetic disorders may also have an increased risk for cataracts.
我们曾经所认为的“血缘纽带”会变成一组信息，具体和分子性的，暂时储存在我们身体里，最终遗传给我们的下一代，或者在我们这里终结。
What was once thought of as the "ties of blood" is now a string of information, concrete and molecular, that we store, temporarily, before it makes its way to our offspring, or ends with us.
不过，遗传可能会留给一些人快乐宝藏，当不那么顺心的时候，他们可以从那里面获得力量。
But, heredity could provide some people with a horde of happiness that they can draw from when the good times aren't rolling.
四项是同龄组研究，也就是说研究开始时对一个健康人群做遗传筛查，然后观测其后的15年他们中哪些人会患上乳腺癌，哪些人不会。
Four were cohort studies in which a healthy population was genetically screened at the outset and followed for 15 years to see who developed breast cancer and who did not.
最新的研究涉及到遗传因素是否会影响承诺的忠诚和婚姻的稳定。
Recent studies have raised questions about whether genetic factors may influence commitment and marital stability.
如果我们能做一个大规模的遗传学研究，也许会准确的认识这一点。
If we could do a big genetic study, we might learn exactly why that is.
首先，IQ的遗传特征竟然会随年龄的增长而表现得更明显，也就是说，随着人们年龄的增长，IQ的差异由遗传决定的程度竟逐渐提高。
One is that the heritability of IQ rises with age--that is to say, the extent to which genetics accounts for differences in IQ among individuals increases as people get older.
这表明，妇女如果在孕期饮酒过多，表观遗传变异可能会导致他们的子女出现胎儿酒精综合征中的一些固定症状。
This suggests that if women drink too much in pregnancy, epigenetic changes may cause some of the permanent symptoms seen in fetal alcohol syndrome in their children.
苏西：我自然喜欢，但是那种遗传而来的防御能力可能会传给同科植物，然后生出需要更毒的除草剂才能控制的超级杂草。
Susie: Naturally, but those inherent defences could spread to plants in the same family and produce super weeds that would require even more toxic herbicides to control.
最终这些技术也许会允许科学家们在实验室的培养皿中修正细胞遗传上的缺陷，并用矫正后的细胞来治疗病人。
Eventually, such techniques might allow scientists to correct genetic defects in the lab dish and then treat patients with their own repaired cells.
破解肿瘤的遗传基础，找到病人对治疗产生反应的决定因素，会帮助我们发现更有针对性的方法来解决这个问题。
Unravelling the genetic basis of cancer to find out what determines whether a patient will respond to treatment will help us take a more targeted approach to tackle this problem.
有没有想过，你遗传给下一代的不止基因物质，你的饮食习惯也会影响到下一代。
Imagine if you bequeathed your children not just your genetic material, but also the consequences of your own eating habits.
环境所引发的基因变异被称为“表观遗传变化”，它可能会影响基因被激活的时间、被激活的程度以及它如何与邻近基因相互配合。
Environmentally triggered alterations in genes - known as epigenetic changes - can affect when a gene is activated, how robustly it is turned on and how it interacts with neighboring genes.
某些类型的孤独症在很大程度上决定于遗传方面的原因，但是我们知道，许多形式的ASD会涉及一些环境风险因素。
Some types of ASD will be largely genetically determined, but we know that many forms of ASD will involve environmental risk factors.
他承认，该项研究由于涉及可以会遗传给后代的基因改变，的确具有争议性。
He accepted the research was controversial because it involved making the genetic changes that could be passed down generations.
之前的研究表明，母亲怀孕期间的环境因素可能会导致胎儿的DNA出现“表观遗传”变异。
Previous studies have shown that factors in the mother's environment during pregnancy can cause "epigenetic" modifications to the fetus's DNA.
遗传变化可能会多次和敏感的激活基因改造，并可能产生逐渐丧失生产力的转基因品种的或意外的有毒植物产品。
The genetic changes activated in GM may be numerous and subtle, and may produce gradual loss in productivity of GM varieties or unexpected toxic plant products.
这样人们所生的小孩可能会遗传这两个品质，通过下一代建立基因链。
The children of these couples will tend to inherit both qualities, building a genetic link over successive generations between them.
一种在家庭中遗传的非常罕见的老年痴呆症可能会影响到更为年轻的人。
A very rare form of Alzheimer's disease that runs in families can affect much younger people.
如果是这样，那就表明另外的的基因重叠，是没什么影响的，也就是说遗传的影响也很小，收养的儿童，和他们的兄弟姐妹会很相似吗？
If so, then it would show that that extra overlap in genes doesn't really matter and so, it would suggest a low role of heredity Are adopted children highly similar to? Their brothers and sisters?
糖酵解的关键酶——丙酮酸激酶，如果它有遗传缺陷，就导致会atp缺乏、红细胞寿命缩短和溶血性贫血。
Inherited deficiency of pyruvate kinase, a key glycolytic enzyme, causes ATP deficiency, which leads to reduced RBC life span and hemolytic anemia.
糖酵解的关键酶——丙酮酸激酶，如果它有遗传缺陷，就导致会atp缺乏、红细胞寿命缩短和溶血性贫血。
Inherited deficiency of pyruvate kinase, a key glycolytic enzyme, causes ATP deficiency, which leads to reduced RBC life span and hemolytic anemia.
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