[Multifactorial diseases: a nightmare for the geneticist].

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Common diseases are often familial, but they do not show in most families, a simple pattern of inheritance. In a few families these diseases may be caused by a mutation in a single gene. In most families these diseases are multifactorial, they result from a complex interaction between a genetic component which is often polygenic and many environmental factors. Two major, model free, methods are used to locate and...

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