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Not too much and not too little
Author(s) -
van Helden Paul
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
embo reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.584
H-Index - 184
eISSN - 1469-3178
pISSN - 1469-221X
DOI - 10.1038/embor.2012.153
Subject(s) - allele , meaning (existential) , white (mutation) , genetics , biology , epistemology , philosophy , gene
We tend to think in black and white terms of good versus bad alleles and their meaning for disease. However, in doing so, we ignore the potential importance of heterozygous alleles.