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polygenic — Something that is controlled or caused by the action of many genes. Thus many of the major non infectious diseases (for example arthritis, cardiovascular disease, asthma, diabetes) are likely to be caused by the interaction of many genes; no… … Dictionary of molecular biology
Ecogenetics diseases — Ecogenetics is the branch of genetics that studies how (inherited or acquired) genetic factors influence human susceptibility to environmental health risks. It studies the genetic basis of environmental toxicity to develop methods for the… … Wikipedia
Genetic disorder — For a non technical introduction to the topic, see Introduction to genetics. Genetic disorder Classification and external resources MeSH D030342 A genetic disorder is an illness caused by abnormalities in genes or … Wikipedia
Nutritional genomics — is a science studying the relationship between human genome, nutrition and health. It can be divided into two disciplines: Nutrigenomics: studies the effect of nutrients on health through altering genome, proteome, metabolome and the resulting… … Wikipedia
Common disease-common variant — The common disease common variant (often abbreviated CD CV) hypothesis predicts that common disease causing alleles, or variants, will be found in all human populations which manifest a given disease. Common variants (not necessarily disease… … Wikipedia
Disease, single-gene — An hereditary disorder caused by a change (mutation) in a single gene. There are thousands of single gene diseases including achondroplasia, Huntington disease, cystic fibrosis, sickle cell disease, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, and hemophilia.… … Medical dictionary
Single-gene disease — An hereditary disorder caused by a change (mutation) in a single gene. There are thousands of single gene diseases including achondroplasia, Huntington disease, cystic fibrosis, sickle cell disease, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, and hemophilia.… … Medical dictionary
Полигенные болезни — * палігенныя хваробы * polygenic diseases наследственные болезни, развитие которых обусловлено не одним, а комбинацией из нескольких генов. В список таких болезней входят гипертония, коронарная болезнь сердца, диабет и язва желудка и 12 перстной… … Генетика. Энциклопедический словарь
Quantitative trait locus — See also: Epistasis Quantitative traits refer to phenotypes (characteristics) that vary in degree and can be attributed to polygenic effects, i.e., product of two or more genes, and their environment. Quantitative trait loci (QTLs) are stretches… … Wikipedia
heredity — /heuh red i tee/, n., pl. heredities. Biol. 1. the transmission of genetic characters from parents to offspring: it is dependent upon the segregation and recombination of genes during meiosis and fertilization and results in the genesis of a new… … Universalium
