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- adjective genetics, of a trait Determined by but a small number of
genes .
Etymologies
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oligo- + -genic
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Several of these GWA datasets contain relatively robust results at "oligogenic" loci that can also be identified by linkage-based approaches
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Tomas Drgon et al. 2010
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We discuss this work in light of its technical and analytic limitations and in its similarities and differences with "template" GWA analyses that seek associations that display genome-wide significance, typically in phenotypes that display oligogenic genetic architectures and/or in larger samples that are often recruited in multiple locations.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Tomas Drgon et al. 2010
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