multifactorial

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1. Involving, dependent on, or controlled by several factors.
2. Of, relating to, or caused by a pattern of familial inheritance resulting from multiple genetic or environmental factors or from a combination of both.

Related to or produced by a number of elements or causes.

1. of or pertaining to, or arising through the action of, many factors.
2. in genetics, arising as a result of the interaction of several genes, i.e. polygenic.

• m. etiology — see multiple causation.

Multifactorial can refer to:

• The multifactorial in mathematics.
• Multifactorial inheritance, a pattern of predisposition for a disease process.

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