In medicine, predisposition is an increased risk of having a disease or other condition.
- It can be a genetic predisposition, a genetic effect which influences the phenotype of an organism but which can be modified by the environmental conditions.
- It can also be an environmental predisposition, such as malnutrition, which increases risk of other conditions.
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