Disparities in allergic disease: hypersensitivity and social disorders.

摘要

The kind of inheritance differs very much; sometimes it is direct, sometimes lateral; sometimes immediate; sometimes remote....With regard to the inheritance of asthma I have observed one curious fact, which suggests an interesting general pathological question. It is, that several brothers and sisters in a family may be asthmatic without the parents having been so. This would seem to suggest, in respect to disease, a principle with which breeders of cattle are familiar - that certain combinations produce certain results, and lead to the creation of certain peculiarities, and that the qualities of the progeny are not the mere resultant of the combined qualities of the parents; just as we sometimes see a family of red-haired children, both the parents of which have black hair.