A challenge in biology is to understand complex traits, which are influenced by many genetic variants. Studies in yeast provide the prospect of analysing such genetic variation in detail in other organisms, including humans.
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Goldstein, D., Noor, M. Lessons in complexity from yeast. Nature 464, 985–986 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/464985a
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