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Or the cancers may have been caused by some other nonhereditary factor.

The fact that disease often results from an unfavorable conjunction of both hereditary and nonhereditary factors has long been known.

"Yet he did it on purpose, to show that he is France's nonhereditary sovereign.

Sorcerers are the possessors of nonhereditary powers that can be bought or acquired.

He said the new evidence suggested that ostensibly nonhereditary cases of colon cancer are probably more powerfully determined by genetics than had been thought.

The reason for the effect is unknown, although there are other hereditary forms of cancer that progress more slowly than similar nonhereditary cancer.

Even for nonhereditary diseases, genes could be implanted to allow the body to make chemicals that would otherwise have to be given as drugs.

In hereditary retinoblastoma, tumors tend to occur at a younger age than in the nonhereditary form of the disease.

The condition is nonhereditary.

Persons who had achieved positions of eminence, whether or not they were of noble birth, often received nonhereditary titles from the state.

But the gene could also play a role in nonhereditary cases of prostate cancer by mutating in a man's prostate tissue during his lifetime.

Post-Soviet Russia is still a young country, one attached to a very old history of hereditary and, more recently, nonhereditary transfers of power.

Ollier disease is a rare nonhereditary sporadic disorder where intraosseous benign cartilaginous tumors develop close to growth plate cartilage.

Keishi's moistdisk helped me recognize the blackened sixth, nineteenth, and twenty-sixth boxes as signifying "irreparable but nonhereditary organic brain defects."

The discovery of genetic flaws linked to manic-depressive illness had been considered the final blow to a minority view that the disorders were caused solely by nonhereditary influences.

The risk of developing a nonhereditary breast cancer is about 12 percent; that of nonhereditary ovarian cancer only 1 to 2 percent.

Bonnet-Dechaumme-Blanc syndrome None Wyburn-Mason syndrome is an extremely rare nonhereditary disorder that is present at birth (congenital).

Unilateral retinoblastoma in children younger than 1 year should raise concern for the hereditary disease, whereas older children with a unilateral tumor are more likely to have the nonhereditary form of the disease.

A study in Japanese patients found a survival advantage in stage III BRCA1-associated ovarian cancers treated with cisplatin regimens compared with nonhereditary cancers treated in a similar manner.

Nonhereditary dukedoms and other lesser titles were also awarded, sometimes posthumously (see posthumous names), during the imperial period of Chinese history to recognize distinguished civil and military officials without the burdens of supporting a feudal peerage.

Lord Victor's position as ruler of the Harbor Lands was theoretically nonhereditary, but in practice one of his sons was very likely to succeed him, given the approval of the Council in Pangur Ban.

Coats' disease, (also known as exudative retinitis or retinal telangiectasis, sometimes spelled Coates' disease), is a very rare congenital, nonhereditary eye disorder, causing full or partial blindness, characterized by abnormal development of blood vessels behind the retina.

Several months after his departure as Prime Minister, Queen Elizabeth II named him a Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, a nonhereditary knighthood that is one of Britain's highest honors.

As a final source of confoundment, researchers have yet to spot a mutation in the BRCA1 gene in the tumor tissue of a patient with so-called sporadic breast cancer, the nonhereditary form of the disease that accounts for the vast majority of cases.

Given that germline mutations in BRCA1 or BRCA2 lead to a very high probability of developing breast and/or ovarian cancer, it was a natural assumption that these genes would also be involved in the development of the more common nonhereditary forms of the disease.