Genetic Function
polygenic inheritance
pol·y·gen·ic in·her·it·ance
Definitions related to polygenic inheritance:
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A type of multifactorial inheritance governed by the simultaneous action of many (more than three) gene loci.Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO)The Human Phenotype Ontology Project, 2021
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