Not relating to or acquired through heredity; not genetic.
environmental and other non-genetic factors also contribute to the disease process
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Although its cause remains a mystery, evidence suggests that it is at least 80% heritable, stemming from complex interactions among several genes and non-genetic influences.
Tumor cells also can arise by non-genetic means through the actions of specific tumor viruses.
That is not to say that there are not shared practices that are passed on through non-genetic means to subsequent generations.
The factors initiating the destructive process are largely unknown, but genetic and non-genetic factors are involved.
Most of the well-financed breast cancer organizations make little or no mention of the non-genetic causes of breast cancer.
There are two ways in which carcinogens can act: genetic and non-genetic.
That's a complex claim, and it fails because hormones aren't non-genetic.
Carcinogens can also cause cancer by non-genetic means.
Clearly, familial aggregation of disease might also be explained by non-genetic factors, owing to siblings sharing environmental as well as genetic influences.
Your looks are affected not by a single "looks" gene but by lots of them - and by nongenetic factors as well, with fashion and free will figuring prominently among them.
Once non-genetic factors such as age, illness, or smoking were removed, a subset of the group seemed to have a blood-oxygen concentration that was 10% higher than normal.
Susceptibility to MS is based on interactions among several genes and influences by, largely unknown, nongenetic factors.
Identical twins are not 100 % concordant, indicating that there are nongenetic factors involved.
Environmental and other non-genetic factors also contribute to the disease process, making it even harder to find the genetic factors.
Scientists now understand that vulnerability to mental illness has a genetic component, which acts in conjunction with various environmental and non-genetic factors.
Nongenetic diabetes usually occurs in people over the age of 40.
First, much adaptation appeared to be non-genetic and regulated by the environment, not by the inherited genotype.
This means she can pass on - by non-genetic means - her own oversensitised stress response to her baby.
Koohmaraie and Smith stress that tenderness is only about half due to genetics of the animal; the rest is the result of non-genetic, environmental factors such as stress or diet.
Derivatives
non-genetically
adverb
The evidence from recent twin studies suggests that the proportion of variance which needs to be explained non-genetically is small.
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The closest thing I've heard to determining the gender of the baby non-genetically is based on your menstruation cycle.
Control data on age of onset in individuals linked non-genetically have apparently never been sought.
The idea of a “Rakhi brother” (a term used to refer to any sibling acquired non-genetically) is getting increasingly popular among women.
This pollen drift poses huge problems for any farmer trying to grow non-genetically engineered crops.