Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or determined by polygenes.
- adjective Of or relating to polygenesis; polygenetic.
- adjective Of or relating to polygenism.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
polygenous , Fallows.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Biol.) Of or relating to polygeny; polygenetic.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective genetics controlled by the
interaction of more than onegene - adjective mathematics, of a function having an
infinite number ofderivatives at apoint (otherwise it ismonogenic )
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to an inheritable character that is controlled by several genes at once; of or related to or determined by polygenes
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Examples
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But this could be a long process as disc degeneration is what's called polygenic, meaning it involves more than one gene.
Sawf News - Fashions 2009
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Sandra, he says, could easily be a product of what is known as polygenic inheritance - or, more colloquially, she is a throwback.
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Slide 13: Many traits are controlled by two or more genes and are called polygenic traits.
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Even moderately secure GWA identification of "polygenic" influences on disease, however, is likely to require replicated data from multiple independent samples.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Tomas Drgon et al. 2010
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From my reading of the literature, it appears inheritance of intelligence is highly polygenic.
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From my reading of the literature, it appears inheritance of intelligence is highly polygenic.
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Adding polygenic effects to the calculations does not change the fact that information is increasing in the in the genome, it just makes the computations more complex.
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From the original study published in the New England Journal of Medicine this week: Background New developments in the search for susceptibility alleles in complex disorders provide support for the possibility of a polygenic approach to the prevention and treatment of common diseases.
Archive 2008-06-22 2008
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Policymakers should start to consider how this knowledge could be used to make a polygenic approach to disease prevention a reality.
Archive 2008-06-22 2008
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Here's some very cool news: scientists have directly observed the evolution of a complex, polygenic, polyphenic trait by genetic assimilation and accommodation in the laboratory.
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