Epistasis is a phenomenon whereby the effects of a given gene on a biological trait are masked or enhanced by one or more other genes. A new study documents epistasis among 890 metabolic genes in yeast, providing one of the largest data sets of its kind in any model organism.
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Moore, J. A global view of epistasis. Nat Genet 37, 13–14 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng0105-13
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