How to Use heritable in a Sentence

heritable

adjective

• The ability to identify the right things to be afraid of is a heritable trait in some species.
  — Rebecca Giggs, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2020
• Endometriosis is heritable, and both my mom and grandma had it.
  — Sarah Bence, Health, 4 Mar. 2025
• Literacy, of course, isn’t a heritable trait, the way that eye color is.
  — Jack Schneider, The Atlantic, 22 Jan. 2018
• The heritable nature of schizophrenia has been known for about a century.
  — Isabella Cueto, STAT, 16 Aug. 2023
• Mostly, this is caused by aging and lifestyle, but in some cases the disease is heritable.
  — Oscar Schwartz, Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2020
• Catchability was a heritable trait—in other words, the researchers were able to breed bass that were harder to catch.
  — Hal Schramm, Outdoor Life, 12 Sep. 2020
• It was found to be highly heritable in a study led by a team of German researchers in 2006.
  — Kate Samuelson, Time, 14 July 2017
• For one thing, facial features are considered to be highly heritable.
  — Connor Lynch, Discover Magazine, 2 Feb. 2022
• Growth is highly heritable and easy to measure, so traditional breeding works well.
  — Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 19 Nov. 2020
• The other is the color of a baby due to be born, the Black-No-More process not being heritable.
  — Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 Jan. 2018
• Since the first autism twin study in 1977, several teams have compared autism rates in twins and shown that autism is highly heritable.
  — Nicholette Zeliadt, Washington Post, 30 June 2017
• This finding suggests that the antibodies are heritable risk factors for autism.
  — Nicholette Zeliadt, Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2018
• No country explicitly permits heritable human genome editing, but many nations have no laws that address it at all.
  — Megan Molteni, Wired, 29 Oct. 2020
• But genome editing could also alter germ lines—eggs, sperm, or embryos—to create heritable changes that can be passed to future generations.
  — Jennifer A. Doudna, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2022
• But in the case of many conditions with a heritable aspect, the role of genetics is still too muddy to inform reputable decisions.
  — WIRED, 25 Aug. 2022
• The team’s findings confirmed that some aspects of canine behavior do seem quite heritable—and sometimes even echo kennel-club dogma.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 28 Apr. 2022
• Editing the genes of embryos is more contentious than altering the genes of adults because those changes are heritable and can be passed on to future generations.
  — Preetika Rana, WSJ, 21 Feb. 2019
• The first of his worries is the notion of introducing heritable mutations into the human genome.
  — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 29 Oct. 2022
• How can this be, given that intelligence is highly heritable, and clever folk breed no more prolifically than less gifted ones?
  — The Economist, 24 Feb. 2018
• This effect is what scientists refer to epigenetics - the study of how heritable traits and the environment affect what genes get turned on and off.
  — Gabriel A. Silva, Forbes, 5 Apr. 2021
• The other strains are less strongly heritable, meaning family history is a useful part of a diagnosis, but not more than that.
  — The Economist, 11 Jan. 2018
• Sporns said the researchers are trying to answer questions such as whether there are heritable differences in the rich club structure and whether these structures change over a person’s lifetime.
  — Quanta Magazine, 24 Oct. 2013
• Others, including many with heritable conditions like deafness and dwarfism, long to have children who share their features and their experience of the world.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2021
• But in the 1970s studies of twins revealed that autism is highly heritable, not something that develops after birth.
  — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 10 Sep. 2025
• Performance on the other two tasks was much less heritable, which MacLean says tells us that not all of these traits have an equally strong genetic component.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 June 2021
• Even in some places that have banned heritable genome editing, the consensus in the scientific community may be unstable.
  — Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2023
• The condition also seems to be heritable because of the links that are being discovered between family members.
  — National Geographic, 9 Apr. 2016
• Bray and her colleagues found that about half of the variation in attention to human communication among the animals is heritable.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 22 Aug. 2023
• This fits the observation that handedness is somewhat heritable, heavily biased to the right, and also quite random.
  — Quanta Magazine, 13 July 2026
• Intelligence is heritable, and for a long time researchers assumed that people with high IQ scores would have kids that also scored above average.
  — Rory Smith, CNN, 13 June 2018