如果说分析一个婴儿的眼睛长得像爸爸还是像妈妈只是胡乱猜想的话，那么了解一个人的基因是遗传自父亲还是母亲则有助于推断此人患上各种疾病的风险。
PONDERING whether a baby got mum or dad's eyes may seem like idle speculation, but knowing which parent certain genes came from can tell you about your risk of disease.
她的小毛病，比如坚持要在就寝时间吃糖果，似乎遗传自她亚美尼亚的父亲。
Her foibles, like her insistence on eating sweets at bedtime, seemed to come from her Armenian father.
她的金发碧眼似乎遗传自她母亲，但是个性方面就像她父亲。
With her light hair and blue eyes she seems to take after her mother, but in her character she is more like her father.
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