E. All of the above 10. According to NBC's Tom Brokaw, asthma is prevalent and perhaps rising in the US population. The actual risk that other family members will be develop a disease is empirically determined. The risk is sharply lower for 2E relatives. The risk is higher when more than one family is affected.
Epidemiological data show that cancer incidence increases exponentially when plotted against age.
The strongest rationale for this statistical phenomenon is A. Tumor cells generally have a long generation time, and it takes decades for critical mass to be achieved. D. Senescing cells have a propensity to become metastatic. E. Elderly individuals have a higher susceptibility to viruses. A. Autosomal dominant inheritance with variable expressivity B. Mendelian inheritance with pleiotropic effects C. Multifactorial inheritance where a threshold liability determines the disease state. D. Uniparental disomy E. Multifactorial inheritance where the phenotypes vary continuously and are distributed in a bell-shaped curve.