Predicting phenotypic variation from genotypes, phenotypes and a combination of the two.

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A central challenge for medicine is to predict disease risk and treatment outcomes for individuals. But what kind of information should be used to make useful predictions in biology? One important cause of phenotypic variation is of course genetics. However genetic predictions have both practical and fundamental limitations: most genetic influences on a trait are usually unknown, and phenotypic variation is not...

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