noun
quantitative genetics
A branch of genetics that studies the inheritance of continuously variable traits, such as height or weight, influenced by many genes and environmental factors.
量的遺伝学は、身長や体重のような連続的な形質の遺伝を扱う。
Quantitative genetics deals with the inheritance of continuous traits such as height and weight.
Population genetics focuses on allele frequency changes in populations, while quantitative genetics specifically models the genetic and environmental contributions to continuous traits.
Compound of 量的 (quantitative) + 遺伝学 (genetics). The term is a direct translation of the English 'quantitative genetics'.