Our results are mainly in accordance with a multifactorial inheritance pattern of Scheuermann's disease, but we cannot rule out that a major gene might be involved in the etiology.
Taken together with the relatively high prevalence of NTDs across the world, this is consistent with a multifactorial polygenic or oligogenic pattern of inheritance, together with an important role for non-genetic factors.
The explanation of the pattern of change with time is probably multifactorial but indicates association with changing lifestyle habits.
The difficulty of finding a common genetic pattern of association is caused by the multifactorial feature of the disease that shows different characterizations by world region and race.
The induction of and action of PCT is a multifactorial process, which involves different cell cell interactions, a time-dependent pattern of cellular activation, and different cellular behavior when cells are native or pre-exposed to proinflammatory stimuli.
The pattern of human exposure to environmental chemicals is complex and multifactorial.
The patients experienced less pain during hypnosis than at rest, and the blood-flow pattern of the brain was notably changed, supporting notions of a multifactorial nature of hypnotic analgesia, with an interplay between cortical and subcortical brain dynamics.
7 Vitiligo does not follow a normal Mendelian pattern of inheritance, and it has been suggested that the disease most likely has a multifactorial, polygenic basis.
To study the multifactorial correlates of adolescents' use of legal and illegal substances in six European countries and to assess whether a common pattern of factors exists irrespective of the countries' different sociocultural backgrounds.
