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1915 Biol. Bull. 29 260 The general appearance and weak vitality of these forms, however point to the conclusion that Jennings was dealing with a weakened pathological race and not a genetic mutation.

1922 Lancet 17 June 1197/1 For stress and strain to result in insanity there must be organic genetic defect also.

1965 G. Beadle Genes, Culture, & Man in Y. Cohen Man In Adaptation (1968) i i. 17/2 The circumvention of genetic disease by nongenetic methods is called euphenics.

1967 Jrnl. Pediatrics 70 398 A new oculocerebral syndrome with hypopigmentation..Since no cases have been reported with a similar combination of findings, this family is believed to represent a ‘new’ genetic disorder.

1973 N. Freedman Joshua 84 Twenty-five percent of patients are hospitalized with genetic diseases, which include sickle-cell anemia, cancer, heart disease..and scoliosis.

1989 E. Lawrence Guide Mod. Biol. iv. 131 The techniques are at present not sufficiently reliable to be applied to in vitro fertilized early human embryos to correct genetic defects.

1995 C. Sagan Demon-haunted World xxiii. 398 Watson and Crick weren't imagining the cure of genetic diseases when they puzzled over the X-ray diffractometry of DNA.

1996 Hope Mag. July–Aug. 26 Trisomy-18 is a rare genetic disorder that is characterized by an extra eighteenth chromosome.

2005 N.Y. Times 13 Feb. 25/4 Some [AIDS sufferers] have genetic mutations that disable the receptors on the outside of the CD-4 immune system cells to which the virus attaches.

2005 G. Blunt Blackfly Season xix. 129 His eyes had some kind of genetic defect, with almost pigmentless irises.