examples of multifactorial traits
Last reviewed 01/2018
Multifactorial disorders may be continuous or discontinuous.
For the multifactorial traits listed, it is difficult to extricate the effects of environment from those of genes.
Examples include:
- cleft lip and palate
- congenital dislocation of the hip
- mood disorders
- diabetes insipidus
- diabetes mellitus
- epilepsy
- gallstones
- hypertension
- hyperthyroidism
- ischaemic heart disease
- multiple sclerosis
- psoriasis
- pyloric stenosis
- sarcoidosis
- schizophrenia
- senile dementia of the Alzheimer's type
- spina bifida
- talipes equinovarus
congenital dislocation of the hip (CDH)