polygenic disease

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   an inherited disease controlled by several genes at once

   Synonymspolygenic disorder

   Broadergenetic disease

   Narrowerdiabetes

Questions about polygenic disease

What does polygenic disease mean?

polygenic disease means "an inherited disease controlled by several genes at once".

What is another word for polygenic disease?

Close synonyms include polygenic 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 polygenic disease a common word?

polygenic 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.