Polygenic disorders: Genetic disorders resulting from the combined action of alleles of more than one gene (e.g., heart disease, diabetes, and some cancers).
See polygenic disorders.
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Polygenic disorders
Genetic disorders resulting from the combined action of alleles of more than one gene (e.g., heart disease, diabetes, and some cancers).
See polygenic disorders.
Complementation
The process by which two recessive mutants can supply each other's deficiency, ...
Other uses for the new high-density maps are to study candidate genes by substituting an informative short tandem repeat polymorphism as a surrogate for a less-informative gene and to explore complex, multifactorial, or polygenic disorders.
A disorder which is caused by mutations in just one gene (such as haemophilia), as opposed to polygenic disorders (such as hypertension) which involve the interaction of several genes.
Source : PhRMA Genomics
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 See also: Polygenic, Allele, Action, Hereditary, DNA
  
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