Congenital or hereditary disorders.

I later discovered I was also hard of hearing, possibly congenitally, in the upper registers.

There are also some children who are born without arms, called congenital limb deficiency.

The risk of this type of Down syndrome is not related to the mother's age.

Hyperhidrosis can also be classified depending by onset, either congenital or acquired.

Microcephaly may be congenital or it may develop in the first few years of life.

Lots of risk factors, but there is a genetic predisposition to prostate cancer.

Some children without Down syndrome may inherit the translocation and have a higher risk of having children of their own with Down syndrome.

Polymorphisms in various genes controlling appetite and metabolism predispose to obesity when sufficient food energy is present.

Krafft Ebing proposed that homosexuality was caused by either congenital birth inversion or an acquired inversion .

Democracies such as India may seem at times to move too slowly and be prone to paralysis.

Pregnancy related Childhood blindness can be caused by conditions related to pregnancy, such as congenital rubella syndrome and retinopathy of prematurity.

Although often symptomless (particularly when it is a secondary reaction), it can predispose to thrombosis in some patients.

The hypothesis that individuals with AS are predisposed to violent or criminal behavior has been investigated, but is not supported by data.

Risk for asthma, then, is determined by both a person's genetics and the level of endotoxin exposure.

Signs and symptoms Syphilis can present in one of four different stages primary, secondary, latent, and tertiary, and may also occur congenitally.

If there are few androgen receptors (people with androgen insensitivity syndrome) or too much androgen (females with congenital adrenal hyperplasia), there can be physical and psychological effects.

Now, behavioral economists might refer to this sort of thing as loss aversion We have a strong predisposition towards protecting what we feel is ours.

A genetic predisposition to keratoconus has been observed, with the disease running in certain families, and incidences reported of concordance in identical twins.

Certain issues (e.g., education) are likely to be linked with female candidates, while other issues (e.g., taxes) are likely to be linked with male candidates.

For example, it could be that many caregivers who tend to expose children to traumatic experiences do so partly because of their own heritable personality disorders, the genetic predisposition for which they may pass on to their children, who develop BPD as a result of that predisposition and other factors, and not as a result of prior mistreatment.

Related diseases A congenital molybdenum cofactor deficiency disease, seen in infants, results in interference with the ability of the body to use molybdenum in enzymes.

Moreover , governments have been more prone to stimulate economies in cyclical downturns than to moderate their expansion in prosperous times .

In many cases, it is unclear whether the gluten induced bowel disease is a causative factor or whether these conditions share a common predisposition.

And what we think in schizophrenia is there are genes of predisposure, and whether this is one that predisposes and then there's only a sub segment of the population that's capable of being schizophrenic.

The primary route of transmission is through sexual contact it may also be transmitted from mother to fetus during pregnancy or at birth, resulting in congenital syphilis.

The French are not culturally or physically predisposed to dominate sports such as judo, canoeing, and swimming, in which they have achieved distinction for more than 50 years.

Not be confused with Aicardi Goutières syndrome Aicardi syndrome is a rare genetic malformation syndrome characterized by the partial or complete absence of a key structure in the brain called the corpus callosum, the presence of retinal abnormalities, and seizures in the form of infantile spasms.

Well, our genes are not our fate, and if we make these changes they're a predisposition but if we make bigger changes than we might have made otherwise, we can actually change how our genes are expressed.

It is clear that the media (digital or otherwise) help to promote this more contemporary model, in a process which feeds off itself, but if the public wasn't receptive or predisposed to change, the virtual world would not be able to alter the real world.

All of this encouraged two further expeditions the first in 1518 under the command of Juan de Grijalva, and the second in 1519 under the command of Hernán Cortés, which led to the Spanish exploration, military invasion, and ultimately settlement and colonization known as the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire and subsequent Spanish colonization in present day Mexico.

While some forms of biological determinism, such as the belief that race or gender dictates a person s destiny, have been widely rejected, the idea that a person can be genetically predisposed, say, to get into debt, become a ruthless dictator, or vote regularly in elections remains socially acceptable.