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Keywords: Trait, Loci, Hypothetical, Phenotypic, Genes

Related Terms: Allele, Dominant, Genotype, Heredity, Heritable, Mendelian, Polymorphism, Recessive, Hybrid Vigor, Heterozygote, Heterozygous, Homozygous, Genetic Polymorphism, Genetic Variation, Dominant Inheritance, Alleles, Mendelian Inheritance, Autosomal Dominant, Codominance, Monohybrid, Mutant, Linkage Disequilibrium, Homozygote, Dihybrid, Dominance, Autosomal Dominant Inheritance, Autosomal Recessive Inheritance, Polygenic Inheritance, Autosomal Recessive, Epistasis, Pleiotropy, Recessive Inheritance, Recessive Gene, Codominant, Congenic, Dominant Gene, Genetic Heterogeneity, Incomplete Dominance, Null Allele, Recessive Allele, Heterozygosity, Polygenic, Loss Of Heterozygosity, Homozygosity, Polygene, Recessive Trait, Haploinsufficiency, Quantitative Trait Locus, Multifactorial Inheritance, Complex Trait

Multiple loci whose alleles increase or decrease a continuously variable phenotypic trait.

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The (hypothetical) many genes affecting a character, each having a small, additive effect on the character.

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Groups of genes that are small in effect individually, but that act together to produce greater bodily characteristics.

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Multiple genes that affect the same trait.

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See multiple-factor hypothesis.

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