Sentences with phrase «epistatic effects»
[20] It removes the possible influence of dominance and epistatic effects which, if present, will tend to make monozygotic twins more similar than dizygotic twins and mask the influence of shared environmental effects.
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Epistatic effects are at their most dramatic in mixed breed dogs where, unlike a purebred dog, we have a relatively spotty (pun intended; coat color and patterning is a great example of epistasis) understanding of how the sequences from lots of contributing breeds will interact.