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SUBMITTER: Hou J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6085889 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hou Jing J van Leeuwen Jolanda J Andrews Brenda J BJ Boone Charles C
Trends in genetics : TIG 20180611 8
The phenotypic consequences of a given mutation can vary across individuals. This so-called background effect is widely observed, from mutant fitness of loss-of-function variants in model organisms to variable disease penetrance and expressivity in humans; however, the underlying genetic basis often remains unclear. Taking insights gained from recent large-scale surveys of genetic interaction and suppression analyses in yeast, we propose that the genetic network context for a given mutation may ...[more]