multigene
adjective
mul·ti·gene
ˌməl-tē-ˈjēn, -ˌtī-
: relating to or determined by a group of genes which were originally copies of the same gene but evolved by mutation to become different from each other
a multigene family of proteins with a common evolutionary origin—Vann Bennett et al.
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