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- Pleiotropy (from Gr**** πλείων pleion, 'more', and τρόπος tropos, 'way') is a phenomenom in genetics where a gene, or a single genetic variant, affects...
- 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...
- of mutations (evolution of ageing), disposable soma and antagonistic pleiotropy hypothesis. The molecular theories of ageing include phenomena such as...
- 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...
- better explained as a by-product of adaptive traits caused by antagonistic pleiotropy and by genes that are retained due to a fitness landscape with an asymmetric...
- ****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...
- Biology of Aging exploring a view of the subject based on antagonistic pleiotropy, the hypothesis that aging is caused by genes that have two effects, one...
- would include information about the patient's covariates. Every novel pleiotropy discovery will need further biological validation to ensure that the data-driven...