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- Pleiotropy (from Gr**** πλείων pleion, 'more', and τρόπος tropos, 'way') is a phenomenon in genetics where a single gene or genetic variant influences multiple...
- The antagonistic pleiotropy hypothesis (APT) is a theory in evolutionary biology that suggests certain genes may confer beneficial effects early in an...
- In pharmacology, pleiotropy includes all of a drug's actions other than those for which the agent was specifically developed. It may include adverse effects...
- ****tive cause for the broad changes seen in domestication syndrome is pleiotropy. Pleiotropy occurs when one gene influences two or more seemingly unrelated...
- evolution such as kin selection and inclusive fitness, or antagonistic pleiotropy that favors heterozygotes causing homo****uality among homozygotes as a...
- of mutations (evolution of ageing), disposable soma and antagonistic pleiotropy hypothesis. The molecular theories of ageing include phenomena such as...
- classical theories of evolution (mutation ac****ulation, antagonistic pleiotropy, and disposable soma) suggest that environmental factors, such as predation...
- Ectopia Lentis, and larger than normal aortas. Pleiotropy shares a relationship with Epistasis. While pleiotropy represents one single gene, epistasis is multiple...
- A very simple genotype–phenotype map that only shows additive pleiotropy effects....
- pleiotropy in the interleukin-4/13 system", Cell, 132(2):259-72. Ozaki, K; Leonard, WJ (16 August 2002). "Cytokine and cytokine receptor pleiotropy and...