monogenic
Americanadjective
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Biology. bearing either only males or only females.
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Genetics. pertaining to a character controlled by one pair of genes.
adjective
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genetics of or relating to an inherited character difference that is controlled by a single gene
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(of animals) producing offspring of one sex
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Afterward, the scientists sequenced each person's genome and used both monogenic and polygenic testing to calculate a risk score.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 17, 2025
The paper is titled "Mutations in the U4 snRNA gene RNU4-2 cause one of the most prevalent monogenic neurodevelopmental disorders."
From Science Daily ● May 31, 2024
Eukaryotic mRNAs are usually monogenic, meaning that they specify a single protein.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
More than 10,000 monogenic inherited disorders have been identified, affecting millions of people worldwide.
From Nature ● Aug. 1, 2017
There cannot be two functions with the given perimeter values, since their difference would be a monogenic potential function with boundary value zero, which can easily be shown to be everywhere zero.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various
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