Epistasis dominates the genetic architecture of Drosophila quantitative traits

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 39, 2012, Pages 15553-15559

  Huang, Wen ^a   Richards, Stephen ^b   Carbone, Mary Anna ^a   Zhu, Dianhui ^b   Anholt, Robert R H ^a   Ayroles, Julien F ^a,c   Duncan, Laura ^a   Jordan, Katherine W ^a   Lawrence, Faye ^a   Magwire, Michael M ^a   Warner, Crystal B ^b,d   Blankenburg, Kerstin ^b   Han, Yi ^b   Javaid, Mehwish ^b   Jayaseelan, Joy ^b   Jhangiani, Shalini N ^b   Muzny, Donna ^b   Ongeri, Fiona ^b   Perales, Lora ^b   Wu, Yuan Qing ^b,e   Zhang, Yiqing ^b   Zou, Xiaoyan ^b   Stone, Eric A ^a   Gibbs, Richard A ^b   Mackay, Trudy F C ^a   more..

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Chill coma recovery; Genetic interaction networks; Genome wide association studies; Startle response; Starvation resistance

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EPISTASIS; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LIFE HISTORY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS MAPPING; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STARTLE REFLEX; STARVATION;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; GENES, INSECT; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 84866848293     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1213423109     Document Type: Article

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