The many faces of pleiotropy

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 66-73

  Paaby, Annalise B ^a   Rockman, Matthew V ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fitness; Phenotype; Pleiotropy; Universal pleiotropy

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLEIOTROPY; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVERSE GENETICS; REVIEW; YEAST;

GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENETIC FITNESS; GENETIC PLEIOTROPY; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION;

EID: 84872839404     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2012.10.010     Document Type: Review

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