Talk:Multifactorial inheritance

clear definations please

are the multiple genetic mutations and the multiple enviromental factors are 2 seperate groups?

can one be wihtout the other? will it still be considered muliple inheritence?

--M siterman 16:29, 30 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Multifactorial inheritance is defined with emphasis on the inheritance. Genes are inherited from parents. The environment is just a trigger for genetic expression. Hopefully, this has been clarified.

--Paul King 19:00, 6 January 2007 (EDT)

A boatload of new stuff

The sources could be improved, but I think there is enough stable information here to keep readers fairly informed. That is, I found enough agreement between my sources that I could say a fair bit. And to the extent that I did, I was a bit pedantic regarding my citations, but for cites, you can't be too pedantic, I suppose.

I had a policy of keeping the definitions as standard as possible. I took out gray areas such as schizophrenia (actually, psychiatry in general, since they haven't established much of anything), intelligence (whatever that means), and stuck to established illnesses for which multifactorial inheritance seems established -- although this article falls short of a formal literature review, where I would like to cite medical journals, textbooks, and so on.

I also felt that "multifactorial inheritance" does not suggest "illness", and so any normally-distributed multifactorial phenotype fell within the scope of this topic, such as height and skin colour. Pking123 23:59, 10 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]