Biased estimates of diminishing-returns epistasis? Empirical evidence revisited

Genetics

Volumn 198, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1417-1420

  Berger, David ^a   Postma, Erik ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; DIMINISHING RETURNS EPISTASIS; EPISTASIS; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE INTERACTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT ERROR; NOTE; PUBLISHING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ALGORITHM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; MUTATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; GENETIC FITNESS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MUTATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84915745495     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.114.169870     Document Type: Note

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