Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-24332685-20140106171610/@comment-25947212-20141231143640

Mortarion's gene seed refers to Malcador the sigilate gathering 12 individuals of "inquisitive nature" which will be the founding fathers of the inqusition.

In those 12 people some were space marine's of the traitor legions who stayed loyal to the Emperor including one or two from the death guard legion, thus it might be possible using the death guard legion's gene seed to create "The Emperors gift" or at least some of it's genetic material of resilience couple with the Emperors phychic powers to resist the warp like DG resist plauge