{"id":8783,"date":"2019-05-22T16:11:28","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/polygenes\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:11:28","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:11:28","slug":"polygenes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/polygenes\/","title":{"rendered":"Polygenes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Genes at more than one locus on a chromosome. &nbsp;Their variations in a particular population can have a combined effect on a discrete phenotypic character. &nbsp;The individual genes have a small quantitative effect, but together produce a wide range of phenotypical variation. &nbsp;Also called, multiple factor quantitative genes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"behavior_genetics\">Behavior genetics<\/a>, <a href=\"gene\">Gene<\/a>, <a href=\"chromosome\">Chromosome<\/a>, <a href=\"epistatic-epistasis\">Epistatic\/epistasis<\/a>, Phenotype, <a href=\"polygenic_mode_of_inheritance\">Polygenic mode of inheritance<\/a>, <a href=\"quantitative_genetic_theory\">Quantitative genetic theory<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genes at more than one locus on a chromosome. &nbsp;Their variations in a particular population can have a combined effect on a discrete phenotypic character. &nbsp;The individual genes have a small quantitative effect, but together produce a wide range of phenotypical variation. &nbsp;Also called, multiple factor quantitative genes.&nbsp; See Behavior genetics, Gene, Chromosome, Epistatic\/epistasis, Phenotype, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/polygenes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Polygenes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}