Genetics
Multifactorial Inheritance
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Get access- Clinical presentation attributable to several genes and environmental factors
Continuous: range of disease expressions with individuals falling between two extremes (eg. blood pressure)
Discontinuous: affected families display higher risk than the general population (eg. type-2 diabetes) but lower than that of single-gene defects such as those described above