Meanings of polygenic disease in English

Osteoporosis is a polygenic disease, whose determining loci have not yet been identified.

Human essential hypertension is a polygenic disease whose phenotypic expression is modulated by the environment.

Osteoporosis is a common polygenic disease and global healthcare priority but its genetic basis remains largely unknown.

Genetic studies in patients and mouse models have shown that alopecia areata is a complex, polygenic disease.

Essential hypertension is a complex, polygenic disease derived from the interaction of patient's genetic background with the environment.

Consanguinity increases risk for numerous monogenic and polygenic diseases.

Nutritional genomics aims to prevent, treat, and manage polygenic diseases through targeted therapies formulated from individuals' genetic makeup and dietary intake.

If validated, GMAS may imply that common polygenic diseases are related as much to group interactions between normal genes, as to multiple gene mutations.