Rewards and dangers of regulatory innovation.

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Adaptive evolution often involves structural variation affecting genes or cis-regulatory changes that engender novel and favorable gain-of-function gene regulation. Such mutation could result in a favorable dominant trait. At the same time, the gene product could be dosage sensitive if its change in concentration disrupts another trait. As a result, the mutant allele would display dosage-sensitive pleiotropy...

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