Is heart disease hereditary? Can a person who subscribes to a very healthy lifestyle suffer a heart attack due to hereditary factors?
1 Answer
Nov 21, 2015
No , heart diseases are not Heritable , they are not passed on to the next generation because it is a part of somatic cells and somatic cells do not take part in gamete formation and hence their inheritence is not possible.
If there is any change in the germplasm ( X and Y chromosome ) it will be surely passed on to the next generation.
