Polygenic Inheritance

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

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Highly Cited
2014
Highly Cited
2014
A Population Genetic Signal of Polygenic Adaptation
Adaptation in response to selection on polygenic phenotypes may occur via subtle allele frequencies shifts at many loci. Current… (More)
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Highly Cited
2011
Highly Cited
2011
Genomic inflation factors under polygenic inheritance
Population structure, including population stratification and cryptic relatedness, can cause spurious associations in genome-wide… (More)
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Highly Cited
2010
Highly Cited
2010
Individuality in gut microbiota composition is a complex polygenic trait shaped by multiple environmental and host genetic factors.
In vertebrates, including humans, individuals harbor gut microbial communities whose species composition and relative proportions… (More)
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Highly Cited
2010
Highly Cited
2010
Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height
Most common human traits and diseases have a polygenic pattern of inheritance: DNA sequence variants at many genetic loci… (More)
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Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Association of cadherin 23 with polygenic inheritance and genetic modification of sensorineural hearing loss
Age-related hearing loss (AHL) in common inbred mouse strains is a genetically complex quantitative trait. We found a synonymous… (More)
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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… (More)
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Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
A comprehensive genetic map of the mouse genome
 
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Highly Cited
1989
Highly Cited
1989
Genotype-environment interactions and the maintenance of polygenic variation.
Genotype-environment interactions may be a potent force maintaining genetic variation in quantitative traits in natural… (More)
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Highly Cited
1981
Highly Cited
1981
Models of speciation by sexual selection on polygenic traits.
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The joint evolution of female mating preferences and secondary sexual characters of males is modeled for polygamous species in… (More)
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Highly Cited
1980
Highly Cited
1980
Sexual dimorphism, sexual selection, and adaptation in polygenic characters.
 
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