One Hundred Years of Pleiotropy: A Retrospective
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Anecdotal, Historical and Critical Commentaries on Genetics One Hundred Years of Pleiotropy: A Retrospective
Pleiotropy is defined as the phenomenon in which a single locus affects two or more distinct phenotypic traits. The term was formally introduced into the literature by the German geneticist Ludwig Plate in 1910, 100 years ago. Pleiotropy has had an important influence on the fields of physiological and medical genetics as well as on evolutionary biology. Different approaches to the study of ple...
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عنوان ژورنال: Genetics
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1943-2631
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.110.122549