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Dynamic epistasis for different alleles of the same gene.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 26 Jun 2012
Xu Lin, Barker Brandon, Gu Zhenglong
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Epistasis refers to the phenomenon in which phenotypic consequences caused by mutation of one gene depend on one or more mutations at another gene. Epistasis is critical for understanding many genetic and evolutionary processes, including pathway organization, evolution of sexual reproduction, mutational load, ploidy, genomic complexity, speciation, and the origin of life. Nevertheless, current understandings for...
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