Question

Heart disease, diabetes, cancer, alcoholism, and many mental illnesses can best be described as __________. answer correct the results of an unhealthy lifestyle simple mendelian disorders multifactorial disorders with a possible polygenic component the symptoms of huntington's disease infectious diseases caused by microorganisms

Answer 1

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Multifactorial disorders with a possible polygenic component

Explanation:

Heart disease, diabetes, cancer, alcoholism, and many mental illnesses can best be described as multifactorial disorders with a possible polygenic component.

• The complex or multifactorial disorders are common medical problems like heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and obesity.

• These disorders do not have a single genetic problem because they are associated with the effects of multiple genes (polygenic). The polygenic effect combines with our lifestyle and environmental factors.