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Inferring the shape of global epistasis.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 7 Aug 2018
Otwinowski Jakub, McCandlish David M, Plotkin Joshua B
Abstract excerpt
Genotype-phenotype relationships are notoriously complicated. Idiosyncratic interactions between specific combinations of mutations occur and are difficult to predict. Yet it is increasingly clear that many interactions can be understood in terms of global epistasis. That is, mutations may act additively on some underlying, unobserved trait, and this trait is then transformed via a nonlinear function to the...
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