What is complex about complex disorders?

Rather than being polygenic, complex disorders probably represent umbrella terms for collections of conditions caused by rare, recent mutations in any of a large number of different genes.

• Publication year

  2012

• Venue

  Genome Biology

• Publication date

  2012-01-23

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1186/gb-2012-13-1-237PMID 22269335PMCID 3334577
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