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modular pleiotropy: a standalone construct

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Evolutionary genetics

the finding that most genes affect only a small, clustered subset of traits, which eases the cost of complexity.

In evolutionary genetics, modular pleiotropy refers to the finding that most genes affect only a small, clustered subset of traits, which eases the cost of complexity. This meaning comes from Wang (2010) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.[1]

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References

Wang, Z., Liao, B., & Zhang, J. (2010). Genomic patterns of pleiotropy and the evolution of complexity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107(42), 18034-18039. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1004666107

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