Hopefully this blog post will help provide some insight into how underwriting certain
health and lifestyle traits works.
The other one - third accounts for those rare cases in which an individual has
health and lifestyle traits that our quoting software couldn't account for.
Not exact matches
We are part on the newly launched NIHR Blood
and Transplant Research Unit in Donor
Health and Genomics, where we coordinate theme 1 - Determinants of donation - related biomarkers.This theme will address the NIHR BTRU mandate to identify
and characterise «genetic, biochemical,
lifestyle and other determinants of relevant blood cell
traits...
and measures of iron homeostasis, including determinants of the trajectories of these factors over time among donors».
The focus of the conference was connecting how epigenetics (cellular
and physiological phenotypic
trait variations that are caused by external or environmental factors that switch genes on
and off
and affect how cells read genes instead of being caused by changes in the DNA sequence — in other words nutrition
and lifestyle choices) impact whether or not an individual actually develops a specific
health issue even though they have a SNP mutation.