if a relative developed a disease after I was born, would I be at higher risk to get it? why so?

Question

I always wondered this, but I never knew what the answer to this was. for example if my relative developed diabetes after I was born, would I be still be at higher risk at getting it. something like that. if that is true, then how does it work? sorry if I sound stupid

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If the cause of his diabetes was a genetical predisposition rather than some external cause, then yes, you may be at risk as well, even if he didn’t develop the disease but still carried the genetic aberration causing the predisposition to exist