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Genotype-by-diet interactions drive metabolic phenotype variation in Drosophila melanogaster.
Genetics - 1 Jul 2010
Reed Laura K, Williams Stephanie, Springston Mastafa, Brown Julie, Freeman Kenda, DesRoches Christie E, Sokolowski Marla B, Gibson Greg
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The rising prevalence of complex disease suggests that alterations to the human environment are increasing the proportion of individuals who exceed a threshold of liability. This might be due either to a global shift in the population mean of underlying contributing traits, or to increased variance of such underlying endophenotypes (such as body weight). To contrast these quantitative genetic mechanisms with...
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