If animals get a similar disease then you can learn about that disease progression in much more detail in the animal.

如果动物也能罹患相似的疾病,那么我们可以通过动物,更详尽的研究病程发展

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Now one could say that there's something peculiar about the-- biologically about the Pimas who live in Arizona, who put that--makes them so much at risk for diseases like Diabetes.

皮玛族人生活在亚利桑那州,在他们身上有些奇怪的生理特性,使得其患糖尿病之类疾病的风险很高

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Or what - and often it's not going to be just one gene, it's going to be combinations of genes, and how do you predict the fate of the individual based on all of the genes that you know to be involved in progression of a certain disease.

有时候甚至都不仅仅是一个基因的问题,引发疾病的是一些不同基因的组合,并且怎样基于,导致某种特定疾病的所有基因,来预测一个人未来是否会患这种疾病呢

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It's because these are the women who have abdominal obesity, so women are less likely to have it in the first place, but many do, and of those who do and have that metabolic syndrome, then they're more susceptible to the heart disease outcomes than men are.

这是因为研究对象都是有腹部肥胖的女性,女性一开始的确比较少患腹部肥胖,但其中仍有人会有腹部肥胖,所以那些患代谢综合征的腹部肥胖女性,与男性相比更容易受到心脏疾病的影响

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