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- adjective genetics Describing an inherited characteristic that is specified by a combination of
multiple genes
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Examples
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These compete with the resistant parasites for red cells and increase the possibility of outbreeding of multigenic-resistance mechanisms or competition in the feeding anopheline mosquito.
Behe Responds 2007
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Probably as Arthur Hunt says, by mistaking complex multigenic changes for single point mutations.
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Chloroquine resistance in P. falciparum may be multigenic and is initially conferred by mutations in a gene encoding a transporter (PfCRT) (13).
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Rather, he is speculating about the frequency of occurrence of a multigenic trait that involves two or three genes, and more perhaps many more than two mutations.
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Wizardy is clearly a quantitative, multigenic trait with variable expressivity and incomplete penetrance.
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Wizardy is clearly a quantitative, multigenic trait with variable expressivity and incomplete penetrance.
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The thinking behind GWAS was that it would expose multigenic diseases.
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The thinking behind GWAS was that it would expose multigenic diseases.
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MMPs form a multigenic family of proteolytic, zinc-dependent enzymes, with 26 members described until present, displaying multidomain structures and substrate specificities.
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The past decade has seen a shift from models of predisposition based on single-gene causative mutations to multigenic models.
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