The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership.

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In a step towards the long-awaited era of personalized medicine, Iceland's DeCode Genetics has discovered a new genetic risk factor for the bone-thinning disease osteoporosis.

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"This is the strongest genetic risk factor yet" for osteoporosis, says Chief Executive Kari Stefansson , who left a tenured position at Harvard in the 1990s to found DeCode.

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Many of the players also share a genetic risk factor for neurodegenerative diseases, so perhaps deposits of tau are the result of brain trauma coupled with the weakened ability of the brain to repair itself.

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Permitting the non-disclosure of a pivotal risk factor, such as a genetic-test result, would undermine one of the fundamentals of insurance.

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Thus, it seems that genetic risks during adolescence may be a determining factor in whether teen smokers become adult smokers, suggesting the possibility to intervene in this process.

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The second thing the team did was to introduce a genetic mutation into the genome of the young egg that allowed for the production of a growth factor, a kind of protein, that can only come from the paternal genome but is vital for normal embryonic development.

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It may be that genetic mutations can accumulate without actually leading to a disorder, until, perhaps, they are triggered by an environmental factor or pile up enough to reach a critical mass.

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