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Colloquium papers: Numbering the hairs on our heads: the shared challenge and promise of phenomics.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 26 Jan 2010
Houle David
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Evolution and medicine share a dependence on the genotype-phenotype map. Although genotypes exist and are inherited in a discrete space convenient for many sorts of analyses, the causation of key phenomena such as natural selection and disease takes place in a continuous phenotype space whose relationship to the genotype space is only dimly grasped. Direct study of genotypes with minimal reference to phenotypes...
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