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multifactorial inheritance

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Multifactorial inheritance describes genetic disorders influenced by multiple genes acting together with environmental factors. This is a significant category of inherited disorders affecting the human population. Common conditions like1

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  1. human genetic disease - Diseases caused by multifactorial inheritance
  2. human genetic disease - Mitochondrial DNA mutations
  3. human disease - Heredity and environment
  4. human genetics - Other traits
  5. human genetic disease - Triplet repeat expansions
  6. multifactorial
  7. heredity - Heritability
  8. epigenetics
  9. human genetic disease - Imprinted gene mutations
  10. epigenomics

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