monogenic

8.8

A trait or disease that a single gene causes

adjective
/ˌmɒnəˈdʒɛnɪk/

Specialized

: monogénico

Glaucoma is often studied as a polygenic condition, while other conditions are clearly monogenic diseases.

We characterize as monogenic diseases, diseases that until yesterday we thought were acquired diseases.

Examples

Glaucoma is a complex disease, which may be a polygenic disease rather than a monogenic disease.

Academic text (2018)
Researchers have identified more than 7,000 monogenic disorders that are inherited diseases controlled by a single pair of genes.
Thus, the number of monogenic disorders is expected to increase.

Academic text (2004)
We characterize as monogenic diseases, diseases that until yesterday we thought were acquired diseases.

Stanford
Monogenic resistance due to a series of Rps genes has been providing reasonable protection to the soybean crop against the pathogen over the last four decades.

Blog text (27)
The discovery of new monogenic causes of diseases has advanced our understanding of genetic inheritance.

Antonyms

polygenic

Specialized

1 9.0

A trait when several genes work together instead of one gene

Compounds

monogenic disease

Specialized

5.8

A disease caused by a change in a single gene that a person inherits

monogenic disorder

Specialized

8.0

A disease that happens when one gene changes and parents pass that change to their child

How Polygenic

polygenetic

Specialized

9.4

monogenic

Specialized

8.8

Surface Forms

monogenic positive

Morphology

monogenic = genic (semi-transparent) = mono + gen + ic

The word is built from the scientific prefix mono- plus genic, but the specialized biological sense is not fully transparent to an average learner.

Etymology

Monogenic comes from mono- 'single' and -genic 'from a gene', the same root you see in genetic. So a monogenic trait or disease is one that is caused or controlled by just a single gene.