How I will answer this is, maybe I should say first, the genetic mean in that question. So what we think usually, anything related to DNA, genes, is genetic – which in a sense, is correct. If you’re able to associate a gene to a disease, symptoms that you see, usually what happens, we go to hospital, they examine us, there are certain symptoms they look at.
Then maybe there was research already, and then there is a mutation on a gene associated with those symptoms, then we have our diagnosis. They tell us, okay, you have that mutation on that gene, and this is this disease.
But, this question could be understood at a level that whether a disease is inherited and that way it’s genetically inherited, it’s a different angle. I sometimes fear that people use these things with a bit of the same meaning. What we know actually at this level of science we have, most of the diseases have a genetic background – which means that there is a mutated gene which causes the disease somehow.
But is every genetic disease inherited? Not really. So, we only inherit the things that we have mutated in our germ cells – so the next offspring get those germ cells. Otherwise somatic mutations in our body, so the genetic diseases appeared because of those mutations, they’re not going to be inherited, but they’re also genetic disorders.
I don’t know how clear these answers were, but maybe the question is a bit not clear enough in that sense, but this is what I would say.
