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Definition of "epistatic" [epistatic]

  • Of or pertaining to epistasis, the interaction between genes. (adjective)

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Use "epistatic" in a sentence
  • "Guts: Again, my understanding is that changes to amino acid sequence are immensely context-dependent (i.e. their effect depends extensively on which other mutations are already present, or epistatic interactions) and only very small number of selectively important trajectories are likely to exist to high-fitness proteins."
  • "Again, my understanding is that changes to amino acid sequence are immensely context-dependent (i.e. their effect depends extensively on which other mutations are already present, or epistatic interactions) and only very small number of selectively important trajectories are likely to exist to high-fitness proteins."
  • "That would depend on the actual degree of interbreeding, along with mutation rate, population size, epistatic interactions, etc."