EPISTASIS

hypostasis, epistasis

(noun) the suppression of a gene by the effect of an unrelated gene

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

epistasis (countable and uncountable, plural epistases)

(genetics) The modification of the expression of a gene by another unrelated one.

Source: Wiktionary



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