Epistasis describes how gene interactions can affect phenotypes. Did you know that genes can mask each other's presence or combine to produce an entirely new trait? But what happens when two ...

Understanding the causes and genetic basis behind these diseases proved elusive when using single-gene studies. However, now that there is a greater focus on epistatic interactions, there may be ...

The gene-environment interaction of colon cancer and aspirin is unusual. It involves a mutation at a single location in the genome that has a big effect on colon cancer risk. The past 25 years of ...

Since it’s impractical to study interactions among all 20,000 genes, they used a technique called causal disentanglement to combine related gene groups into a model that simplifies cause-and ...

According to commonly accepted criteria, CYP testing separates individuals with polymorphisms into five categories: poor metabolizers (PMs); intermediate metabolizers (IMs); extensive metabolizers ...

Researchers at the University of València in Spain have shown that an organism's genomic complexity may predict these epistatic gene interactions. 1 It is a "fascinating new synthesis of published ...