polygenic
adjEtymology From poly- + -genic.
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Biology, Genetics, Medicine, Natural sciences, Sciences controlled by the interaction of more than one gene
- A risk score based on multiple genetic differences, or polygenic risk score, predicted significantly more cases of early-onset heart disease than standard tests for single genetic defects, according to new research in the American Heart Association’s journal Circulation: Genomic and Precision Medicine.2018, American Heart Association, “Multi-gene Test Predicts Early Heart Disease Risk”, in Drug Discovery & Development:
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Mathematics, Sciences Of a function having an infinite number of derivatives at a point (otherwise it is monogenic)
- Derived terms
- polygenically