Letter P

Polygenic disease

A genetic disease caused by the combined actions of two or more genes.

Examples of polygenic diseases include coronary heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, and peptic ulcers.

Because such disorders depend on the simultaneous presence of several genes, they are not inherited in simple Mendelian patterns

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