Diathesis in a sentence as a noun

The diathesis, or predisposition, is in the genes.

It may indeed be accepted that in the case of specially marked neurotic diathesis, even the moderate use may produce mental injury.

This is called the diathesis-stress model of schizophrenia, and the same model is believed to a helpful research hypothesis for study of depression and *******.

My psychopathology course always emphasized a diathesis-stress model.

[3] This research path will be slow and frustrating, precisely because it is well known already that no one gene has strong effect, and no particular gene acts without interaction with the environment, but this kind of fundamental research is indeed necessary to refine the diathesis-stress model[4] of the development of schizophrenia.

Diathesis definitions

noun

constitutional predisposition to a particular disease or abnormality