In fact, it is likely that only a small proportion of hereditary cancers have a link to the BRCA gene, so a negative result could never rule out even hereditary breast cancer.
He had replaced a tottering theocracy with a hereditary monarchy, though Buddhism remained the national faith.
That would encourage the wealthy to distribute their wealth widely, thereby making a hereditary elite less likely.
So Americans uneasily both accept and reject the hereditary principle, a contradiction that's uncomfortable for them but very productive.
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This is a hereditary title and as such is very rarely issued now.
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He became a hereditary peer in the House of Lords after the death of his father, who was British, in 1996.
So, for instance, in some societies, at some times, a hereditary monarch has been seen as having the right to exercise power.
The role of Seigneur, or Lord, of Sark is a hereditary title.
Also big is OCRA Worldwide, based on the Isle of Man and chaired by Lord St John of Bletso, a hereditary peer and lawyer.
Celebrex is approved as an adjunctive therapy for a hereditary disorder called Familial Adenomatous Polyptosis (FAP), which causes colon polyps to appear with alarming frequency.
Lord Lucas, a hereditary peer whose title is one of the few that can be inherited by woman, thinks he has the answer - An "opt-in" system.
Among them are hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) - a hereditary condition in which there is excessive thickening in the heart muscle, myocarditis, which leads to inflammation of the heart muscle and coronary artery disease.
More than 192, 000 U.S. women get breast cancer diagnoses each year, and about 5 to 10 percent of those cases are a hereditary form of the disease, according to the National Cancer Institute.
The problem for the Tories is that a hereditary peer may not be believed when he insists, as Viscount Cranborne does, that his complaint against Lords reform has nothing to do with the expulsion of his own sort from the House.
Wizarding appears to be hereditary, but occasionally a muggle child will appear with natural magical ability, such as Harry's friend Hermione Granger .
Her long-suffering husband Denis was given a baronetcy, which is a sort of hereditary knighthood.
Anti-Slavery International's Beth Herzfeld told the BBC earlier this year that chattel slavery, involving a class of hereditary slaves, still existed in parts of Africa, and bonded labour remained common in South Asia.
And, despite the abolition of the vast majority of the hereditary peers, there is still a powerful pro-hunting lobby amongst peers.
In many cases, these diseases are hereditary and some people elect to have a test so that they can, if necessary, seek early medical treatment for the condition.
His struggle nearly 40 years ago to renounce his peerage so that he could sit as a commoner in the elected house seems a small thing now that hereditary peerage itself is on the point of being evicted from Westminster.
Ms Harris said that a family history of breast cancer was more likely to be a case of "bad luck" than a faulty gene, as hereditary breast cancer caused by genetic mutations such as BRCA1 or BRCA2 account for only 5-10% of cases of the disease.
Theoretically, a House of Lords shorn of hereditary peers could have more scope for embarrassing the government than the present one.
Her sophisticated soldier husband, the Hereditary Prince of Brunswick, taunted her with a succession of mistresses, and she took disconsolately to religion, and to trumpeting the superiority of her native land.
He tabled a motion calling for the government to bring forward legislation to enable peers to retire, to end by-elections for hereditary peers, to remove members convicted of a serious criminal offence and to put the House of Lords Appointments Commission on a statutory footing.
Dyax received a CRL for its drug to treat hereditary angioedema on March 25, 2009.
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Few parliamentarians combine experience of the Commons with a feel for the thinking of the hereditary peers.
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