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polygenic

polygenic adjective: controlled by the interaction of more than one gene.

Adjective

polygenic (not comparable)

  1. 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...2018, American Heart Association, “Multi-gene Test Predicts Early Heart Disease Risk”, in Drug Discovery & Development
    Synonyms:
    multigenic, plurigenic, polygenetic[Appendix:Glossary
  2. having an infinite number of derivatives at a point (otherwise it is monogenic)

Synonyms of polygenic

Origin of polygenic

From poly- + -genic.

Words formed from polygenic

Questions about polygenic

What does polygenic mean?
Polygenic means controlled by the interaction of more than one gene.
What part of speech is polygenic?
Polygenic is an adjective.

Words near polygenic in the dictionary

  1. polygenesis
  2. polygenesist
  3. polygenesists
  4. polygenetic
  5. polygenetically
  6. polygenic
  7. polygenically
  8. polygenicities
  9. polygenicity
  10. polygenies
  11. polygenism

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