Altria Group, Inc. (renamed from Philip Morris Companies Inc. on January 27, 2003) is an American corporation and one of the world's largest producers and marketers of tobacco, cigarettes and related products. It operates worldwide and is headquartered in Henrico County, Virginia.
Hereditary Aspects of Type 2 Diabetes. Type 2 diabetes tends to be fairly hereditary in contrast to type 1 diabetes. Approximately 38% of siblings and one-third of children of people with type 2 diabetes will develop diabetes or abnormal glucose metabolism at some point.
Sickle cell anemia is a hereditary disease. It is a blood disorder caused by a point mutation in the allele coding for the beta chain of haemoglobin, particularly a substitution of valine for glutamic acid at position 6 of chromosome 11. The result is a defective haemoglobin.