monogenic disease

Questions about monogenic disease

What does monogenic disease mean?

monogenic disease means "an inherited disease controlled by a single pair of genes".

What is another word for monogenic disease?

Close synonyms include monogenic disorder. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is monogenic disease a common word?

monogenic disease is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.