Compositional epistasis: an epidemiologic perspective.

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Under Bateson's original conception, the term "epistasis" is used to describe the situation in which the effect of a genetic factor at one locus is masked by a variant at another locus. Epistasis in the sense of masking has been termed "compositional epistasis." In general, statistical tests for interaction are of limited use in detecting compositional epistasis. Using recently developed epidemiological methods,...

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