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Polygenic Inheritance

Known as: Characters, Polygenic, Inheritance, Polygenic, Inheritances, Polygenic 
A phenotypic outcome (physical characteristic or disease predisposition) that is determined by many genes.
National Institutes of Health

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Multifactorial Inheritance

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Review
2009
Review
2009
Genetic regulation of adult stature
Purpose of review Both environmental (e.g., nutrition) and genetic factors contribute to adult height variation in the general… 
Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
Variation and selection of polygenic characters
Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Estimated genetic parameters for palatability traits of steaks from Brahman cattle.
Heritabilities and genetic and phenotypic correlations were estimated from carcass and beef palatability data collected from… 
Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Mapping quantitative trait loci for serum insulin-like growth factor-1 levels in mice.
Review
1998
Review
1998
Polygenic inheritance and micro/minisatellites
While it has often been stated that the identification of the genes involved in complex polygenic traits may be extremely… 
Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
Backcross analysis of genes linked to autoantibody production in New Zealand White mice.
F1 hybrids of New Zealand Black (NZB) and New Zealand White (NZW) mice are genetically predisposed to develop a lupus-like… 
Highly Cited
1987
Highly Cited
1987
PARENTAL EFFECTS ON SEED DEVELOPMENT AND SEED YIELD IN RAPHANUS RAPHANISTRUM: IMPLICATIONS FOR NATURAL AND SEXUAL SELECTION
  • S. Mazer
  • Evolution; international journal of organic…
  • 1987
  • Corpus ID: 205776321
The possibility that sexual selection operates in angiosperms to effect evolutionary change in polygenic traits affecting male… 
Highly Cited
1987
Highly Cited
1987
Partitioning the variability of fasting plasma glucose levels in pedigrees. Genetic and environmental factors.
Fasting plasma glucose measurements made in 1972-1977 on normoglycemic individuals in three-generation Caucasian pedigrees from… 
Highly Cited
1984
Highly Cited
1984
The inheritance of high density lipoprotein cholesterol and apolipoproteins A-I and A-II.
Highly Cited
1963
Highly Cited
1963
CYTOCHEMICAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE NUCLEOLUS-RIBOSOME SYSTEM. EFFECTS OF ACTINOMYCIN D AND NITROGEN MUSTARD.
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