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Survival of the Curviest: Noise-Driven Selection for Synergistic Epistasis.
PLoS genetics - 1 Apr 2016
Wilkins Jon F, McHale Peter T, Gervin Joshua, Lander Arthur D
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A major goal of human genetics is to elucidate the genetic architecture of human disease, with the goal of fueling improvements in diagnosis and the understanding of disease pathogenesis. The degree to which epistasis, or non-additive effects of risk alleles at different loci, accounts for common disease traits is hotly debated, in part because the conditions under which epistasis evolves are not well understood....
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