How to pronounce“polygenic”in English
and when this happens it's called a polygenic trait.
Polygenic: many genes. And then again, sometimes a single gene can influence how multiple traits are going to be expressed; these genes are called pleiotropic.
However, some very few, but some single traits are decided by a single gene. Like the color of pea flowers for example, which is what Mendel studied when he discovered all
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Definitions of “polygenic”
controlled by the interaction of more than one gene
“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.”
having an infinite number of derivatives at a point (otherwise it is monogenic)
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