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Meanings of polygenic disorder in English

An inherited disease controlled by several genes at once.

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        Examples for "polygenic disease"
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        Osteoporosis is a polygenic disease, whose determining loci have not yet been identified.
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        Human essential hypertension is a polygenic disease whose phenotypic expression is modulated by the environment.
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        Osteoporosis is a common polygenic disease and global healthcare priority but its genetic basis remains largely unknown.
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        Genetic studies in patients and mouse models have shown that alopecia areata is a complex, polygenic disease.
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        Essential hypertension is a complex, polygenic disease derived from the interaction of patient's genetic background with the environment.
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        Usage of polygenic disorder in English
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        As a polygenic disorder, genetic studies have only started to shed light on its complex etiology.
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        The data provide strong evidence for the model of Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis as related polygenic disorders.
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        Systematic screening of the entire human genome now provides a strategy for the identification of susceptibility genes in complex polygenic disorders.
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        Neuropsychiatric disorders are highly heritable polygenic disorders arising from the complex interplay of highly penetrant rare variants and common variants of small effect.
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