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Polygenic

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    controlled by the interaction of more than one gene not-comparable

    "A risk score based on multiple genetic differences, or polygenic risk score, predicted significantly more cases of early-onset heart disease than standard tests for single genetic defects, according to new research in the American Heart Association’s journal Circulation: Genomic and Precision Medicine."

  2. 2
    having an infinite number of derivatives at a point (otherwise it is monogenic) not-comparable
Adjective
  1. 1
    of or relating to an inheritable character that is controlled by several genes at once; of or related to or determined by polygenes wordnet

Etymology

From poly- + -genic.

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