title: What is complex about complex disorders?
abstract: Rather than being polygenic, complex disorders probably represent umbrella terms for collections of conditions caused by rare, recent mutations in any of a large number of different genes.
authors.affiliation: Smurfit Institute of Genetics and Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland. Kevin.Mitchell@tcd.ie
authors.forename: Kevin J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Mitchell
mesh_terms: D056726:Genetic Association Studies; D030342:Genetic Diseases, Inborn / Q000235:genetics*; D020022:Genetic Predisposition to Disease; D014644:Genetic Variation; D055106:Genome-Wide Association Study; D006801:Humans; D020412:Multifactorial Inheritance; D009154:Mutation; D019655:Quantitative Trait, Heritable