Researchers have found that schizophrenia may be caused by multiple genes, each contributing equally to the behavioral phenotype. This is an example of _____

a. a polygenic additive model
b. epistasis
c. single gene, dominant trait
d. single gene, recessive trait
e. genome wide association


a

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