But this could be a long process as disc degeneration is what's called polygenic, meaning it involves more than one gene.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sawf News - Fashions] Reference

Slide 13: Many traits are controlled by two or more genes and are called polygenic traits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Sandra, he says, could easily be a product of what is known as polygenic inheritance - or, more colloquially, she is a throwback.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marshall Fine: Movie Review: Skin Is Deep] Reference

Even moderately secure GWA identification of "polygenic" influences on disease, however, is likely to require replicated data from multiple independent samples.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

From my reading of the literature, it appears inheritance of intelligence is highly polygenic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Some Scientists’ Openness to the Possibility of Genetic Differences in Mental Traits Among Racial and Ethnic Groups] Reference

Policymakers should start to consider how this knowledge could be used to make a polygenic approach to disease prevention a reality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-06-22] Reference

It's a whole other thing to actually identify those genes, because homosexuality may be polygenic, with each gene having a small effect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Homosexuality and Biology] Reference

Because most communication signals are under polygenic control 4, it is difficult to identify the contributions of particular genes to signal evolution.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hunter's Distortions - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Adding polygenic effects to the calculations does not change the fact that information is increasing in the in the genome, it just makes the computations more complex.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death of a popular anti-ID argument] Reference

Here's some very cool news: scientists have directly observed the evolution of a complex, polygenic, polyphenic trait by genetic assimilation and accommodation in the laboratory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evolution of a polyphenism - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

So, isn't epistasis a form of polygenic inheritance?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Answerbag: Latest Questions in Question Categories] Reference

Slide 14: A bell-shaped curve is typical of polygenic traits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

One polygenic trait can have many possible genotypes and phenotypes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Biology Can you clearly differentiate polygenic inheritance and epistasis?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Answerbag: Latest Questions in Question Categories] Reference

Why is the ABO blood group an example of multiple alleles and not polygenic inheritance?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference

Linear models were constructed to simultaneously estimate fixed, polygenic and QTL effects.    From Wordnik.com.  [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference

Haemophilus parasuis and swine influenza virus, resistance is a complex and polygenic trait.    From Wordnik.com.  [ThePigSite - Industry News] Reference

Comparison of statistical procedures for estimating polygenic effects using dense genome-wide marker data.    From Wordnik.com.  [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference

But he predicted that prostate cancer will be found to be polygenic, "not dependent on one gene, but a group of genes.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Health News from Medical News Today] Reference

The estimated heritabilities for polygenic effects and for the first and second QTL were 19%, 17% and 21%, respectively.    From Wordnik.com.  [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference

This indicates that finger length is a single-gene trait. polygenic trait. randomly inherited trait. strongly selected trait.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Slide 74: 16-1 A widow's peak in humans is an example of a (an) invariable trait. single-gene trait. polygenic trait. mutation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Although the gain is modest, the relatively low cost of implementing the polygenic approach makes it attractive when one considers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference

Detection of the second QTL in a model reduced the polygenic heritability and should improve accuracy of estimated heritabilities for both QTLs.    From Wordnik.com.  [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference

The main goal of these studies is not prediction of individual risk but rather discovery of biologic pathways underlying polygenic diseases and traits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Technology Review RSS Feeds] Reference

Hair curl (probably polygenic).    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-04-01] Reference

Shape of face (probably polygenic).    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-04-01] Reference

Regarding polygenic effects, sorry, but no cigar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death of a popular anti-ID argument] Reference

"Our findings suggest that, at present, this type of polygenic risk score is unlikely to be.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference

The genetics of human adaptation: hard sweeps, soft sweeps, and polygenic adaptation http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20178769.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Some Scientists’ Openness to the Possibility of Genetic Differences in Mental Traits Among Racial and Ethnic Groups] Reference

The genetics of human adaptation: hard sweeps, soft sweeps, and polygenic adaptation http://www. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20178769.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Some Scientists’ Openness to the Possibility of Genetic Differences in Mental Traits Among Racial and Ethnic Groups] Reference

2 current polygenic tests would increase life expectancy by just 1 week for the whole female population.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference

Height in humans is a polygenic trait.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

1.) name at least three traits that are a result of polygenic inheritance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference

These are known as "pleiotropic" and as "polygenic" effects, respectively.    From Wordnik.com.  [Making a Monkey out of Pat Buchanan] Reference