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Pleiotropic
1) Multiple, often seemingly unrelated, physical effects caused by a single altered gene or pair of altered genes.
2) The phenomenon of variable phenotypes for a number of distinct and seemingly unrelated phenotypic effects.
3) Producing more than one effect; especially : having multiple phenotypic expressions .
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