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    Originally, the term epistasis specifically meant that the effect of a gene variant is masked by that of different gene. The concept of epistasis originated in...
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    interact (see Mendelian inheritance). This can include lethal effects and epistasis (where one allele masks another, regardless of dominant or recessive status)...
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  • returns epistasis. When deleterious mutations also have a smaller fitness effect on high fitness backgrounds, this is known as "synergistic epistasis". However...
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    may be dominant for one trait but not others. Dominance differs from epistasis, the phenomenon of an allele of one gene masking the effect of alleles...
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  • Epistasis refers to genetic interactions in which the mutation of one gene masks the phenotypic effects of a mutation at another locus. Systematic analysis...
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  • Genotype (section Epistasis)
    genotype have both A and B proteins expressed on their red blood cells. Epistasis is when the phenotype of one gene is affected by one or more other genes...
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    distinct genes. The interplay among these genes is used as an example of epistasis. Labrador Retrievers are a popular dog breed in many countries. There...
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  • sudden environmental changes affect the epistasis of alleles in the population. As such, negative epistasis (the removal of a resistant allele via mutation)...
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    genetic phenomenon epistasis whereby the phenotypic effect of one mutation is dependent upon mutation(s) at other loci. While epistasis was originally conceived...
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    paternal line (in case of Y-chromosomal loci) 6. Locus–locus interactions Epistasis with other loci (e.g., overdominance) Gene coupling with other loci (also...
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  • organisms. Epistasis is the dependence of the effect of one gene or mutation on the presence of another gene or mutation. Theoretically epistasis can be of...
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    expressed because of another genetic factor hindering their expression, this epistasis can make it impossible even for dominant alleles on certain other gene-loci...
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  • deleterious mutations in sexual populations is facilitated by synergistic epistasis among deleterious mutations. High load can lead to a small population...
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    that, although it was selected, there was no selection for that trait." Epistasis occurs when the expression of one gene is modified by another gene. For...
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    respectively. The blue lines represent relationships based on genetic epistasis. Red lines represent Wor1 control of each gene, based on Wor1 enrichment...
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  • genetic equations whilst making the assumption of weak selection and weak epistasis. Selection under these conditions rapidly changes allele frequencies to...
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    Parkin NT, Whitcomb JM, Petropoulos CJ (2004). "Evidence for positive epistasis in HIV-1". Science. 306 (5701): 1547–50. Bibcode:2004Sci...306.1547B....
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    has blue or magenta alleles. This interaction between genes is called epistasis, with the second gene epistatic to the first. Many traits are not discrete...
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  • allelic and mutational effects, and patterns of pleiotropy, dominance, and epistasis. There are several different experimental views of genetic architecture...
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    relationship between number of mutations and fitness is known as synergistic epistasis. By way of analogy, think of a car with several minor faults. Each is...
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  • chromosomal fragments. epistasis The collective action of multiple genes interacting during gene expression. A form of gene action, epistasis can be either additive...
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    field also includes studies of intragenomic phenomena such as heterosis, epistasis, pleiotropy and other interactions between loci and alleles within the...
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    MC1R, KITLG and SLC24A4). This does not take into account the effects of epistasis, which would probably increase the number of related genes. Variations...
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  • flanking markers contain the genetic information of the additive by additive epistasis between the two marker intervals. As a consequence, a linear model of...
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  • sum of these contributions. Non-additive effects involve dominance or epistasis, and cause outcomes that are not a sum of the contribution of the genes...
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    Mauro-Herrera, M.; Meyer, A.; Rogers, K. (2014). "Beyond the single gene: How epistasis and gene-by-environment effects influence crop domestication". Proceedings...
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  • chronostasis, diastase, diastasis, diastatic, diasystem, ecstasy, ecstatic, epistasis, episteme, epistemic, epistemology, eustasis, eustatic, eustele, haplostele...
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    estimators for the epistasis variances. However, the findings of epigenetics suggest that this may not be an appropriate way to define epistasis. Covariance...
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    (sixth ed.). Jones & Bartlett publishers. pp. 3.6 Incomplete Dominance and Epistasis. ISBN 978-0-7637-1511-3. Xue, Yongbiao; Rosemary Carpenter; Hugh G. Dickinson;...
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    resistance to the heart poisons in insects through positive, intramolecular epistasis. In the breeding season, the black-headed grosbeak comes to bird feeders...
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