Concept information
Preferred term
multifactorial inheritance
Definition
- The multifactorial inheritance model applies to diseases that depend on multiple genetic loci (polygenic) and the additional contribution of environmental factors. Multifactorial diseases are the result of the interplay of multiple environmental risk factors with more than one gene, where these multiple genes are viewed as susceptibility genes. [Source: Encyclopedia of Epidemiology; Multifactorial Inheritance]
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/multifactorial_inheritance
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