Genetic Pleiotropy
"Genetic Pleiotropy" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A phenomenon in which multiple and diverse phenotypic outcomes are influenced by a single gene (or single gene product.)
| Descriptor ID |
D058685
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G05.420.556 G05.695.550
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| Concept/Terms |
Genetic Pleiotropy- Genetic Pleiotropy
- Pleiotropy, Genetic
- Genetic Pleiotropism
- Pleiotropism, Genetic
Pleiotropic Gene- Pleiotropic Gene
- Gene, Pleiotropic
- Genes, Pleiotropic
- Pleiotropic Genes
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2015 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Genetic Pleiotropy" by people in Profiles.
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Ostrowski EA, Ofria C, Lenski RE. Genetically integrated traits and rugged adaptive landscapes in digital organisms. BMC Evol Biol. 2015 May 12; 15:83.
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Long H, Zufall RA. Mutational robustness of morphological traits in the ciliate Tetrahymena thermophila. J Eukaryot Microbiol. 2015 Mar-Apr; 62(2):249-54.