Collective Effort of Small Variations in Genetic Code can Lead to Significant Changes in Physical Characteristics

Collective effort is more effective than individuals and that seems to be true for the genetic code as well after researchers at USC found that large sets of variations, which do not have much effect individually, can collectively lead to significant changes in an organism's physical characteristics. Studying the budding yeast iSaccharomyces cerevisiae/i, USC's Matthew B. Taylor and Ian M. Ehrenreich found that the effects of these genetic variants can depend ...

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Written by: editor - Saturday, May 3, 2014