predisposition

Maybe running lots of ultramarathons adds a few months of life expectancy for 99 percent of us, but shortens it by a decade for an unlucky fraction of a percent who have some sort of underlying issue or genetic predisposition.

It could be a person’s lucky number, there could be some weird human predisposition to these digits.

We have an innate predisposition for music, there’s no question about that.

Few of the cancer-stricken family members were related by blood to the Goolsbys — some had married into the family — which, to Andrea, ruled out the possibility that the cancers were caused by a genetic predisposition.

“You can have a genetic predisposition to depression,” Gotlib says.

“In general, loneliness is more a personal predisposition than an objective social condition,” he said.

He flatly stated that sexual orientation is a matter of biological predisposition.

Basso said Alleman had a genetic predisposition for cardiac problems, as both of his parents died of heart attacks in their 50s.

When was the first time I realized this was beyond a predisposition to anxiety?

But his ideological predisposition matters less than budgetary reality.

For what less than disease can we call a necessity of error and a predisposition to sin and sickness?

But the good man's plans could not prevail against his nephew's predisposition for the land.

This statement may be interpreted to refer to a predisposition rather than to an inherited characteristic.

It cannot be disputed that man bears within himself, in his personality, a predisposition for divinity.

Hence, especially if there be any pre-existing uterine disease, or a predisposition thereto, miscarriage is a serious thing.