An Evolutionary Perspective on Epistasis and the Missing Heritability

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Hemani, Gibran ^a   Knott, Sara ^b   Haley, Chris ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; EPISTASIS; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE GENETICS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84874776155     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003295     Document Type: Article

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