HERITABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does heritable mean? 

• HERITABLE (adjective)
  The adjective HERITABLE has 1 sense:

1. capable of being inherited

  Familiarity information: HERITABLE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HERITABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Capable of being inherited

Synonyms:

heritable; inheritable

Context example:

an inheritable title

Similar:

ancestral; hereditary; patrimonial; transmissible (inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent)

familial; genetic; hereditary; inherited; transmissible; transmitted (occurring among members of a family usually by heredity)

monogenic (of or relating to an inheritable character that is controlled by a single pair of genes)

polygenic (of or relating to an inheritable character that is controlled by several genes at once; of or related to or determined by polygenes)

inheriting (having the legal right to inherit)

nee ((meaning literally 'born') used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman)

 Context examples 

A gene deletion abnormality can be either heritable or somatic.

(Gene Deletion Abnormality, NCI Thesaurus)

These abnormalities can be either heritable or occur somatically.

(Mixed Nucleotide Abnormalities, NCI Thesaurus)

Heritable defects in the GCLC gene are associated with hemolytic anemia (due to deficiency of gamma-glutamylcysteine synthetase) and susceptibility to myocardial infarction.

(GCLC wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Twin studies have in the past shown that various sleep-related traits, including insomnia, are heritable.

(Can't Sleep? Could Be Down to Genetics, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

This type of abnormality is typically heritable, although it can also occur somatically.

(Dominant-Negative Mutation Abnormality, NCI Thesaurus)

A heritable or somatic mutation in a genomic DNA sequence that causes the death of a eukaryotic organism at the embryonic stage of development.

(Embryonic Lethal Mutation Abnormality, NCI Thesaurus)

This type of mutation abnormality can be either heritable or occur somatically.

(Gene Fusion Abnormality, NCI Thesaurus)

The PcG proteins form multimeric protein complexes, PRC1 and PRC2 which are involved in the heritable, stable repression of genes through modification of chromatin structure.

(Gene Silencing Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Heritable defects in the IL12B gene are a cause of susceptibility to mycobacterial disease.

(IL12B wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Heritable defects in the IL12RB1 gene are a cause of susceptibility to mycobacterial disease.

(IL12RB1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)