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Histone variant HTZ1 shows extensive epistasis with, but does not increase robustness to, new mutations.
PLoS genetics - 1 Jan 2013
Richardson Joshua B, Uppendahl Locke D, Traficante Maria K, Levy Sasha F, Siegal Mark L
Abstract excerpt
Biological systems produce phenotypes that appear to be robust to perturbation by mutations and environmental variation. Prior studies identified genes that, when impaired, reveal previously cryptic genetic variation. This result is typically interpreted as evidence that the disrupted gene normal...
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