1.   The disease occurs when a child inherits a single dominant gene from a parent with the disease.

2.   Those who inherit one gene have an increased chance of acquiring cancers later in life.

3.   And everyone who inherits the gene gets ALS.

4.   About half the boys who inherit the gene for adrenoleukodystrophy develop the disease, which inevitably leads to severe nerve damage and, eventually, death.

5.   But males, who carry one Y chromosome and one X chromosome, suffer much more severe consequences if they inherit a defective gene on their lone X chromosome.

6.   Children wonder if they have inherited these genes.

7.   Compared with healthy black subjects, those with lupus were more likely to have inherited the gene for the inefficient receptors.

8.   However, a girl will have normal color vision unless she inherits defective genes from both her mother and her father.

9.   If he did not inherit the entrepreneurial gene from his father, Hewlett did get the engineering gene.

10.   If you want to know what genes you inherited, this is your answer.