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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2019

Complex modifier landscape underlying genetic background effects.

Jing Hou, Guihong Tan, Gerald R Fink, Brenda J Andrews, Charles Boone

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.

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29citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

29 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Domestication drives repeated evolution of sexual-asexual life cycle trade-offs in yeast.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  9. Essential genes: a cross-species perspective.Mammalian genome : official journal of the International Mammalian Genome Society · 2023
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  14. Loss-of-function mutation survey revealed that genes with background-dependent fitness are rare and functionally related in yeast.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Jing HouDonnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3E1, Canada; jing.hou@utoronto.ca brenda.andrews@utoronto.ca charlie.boone@utoronto.ca.ORCID 0000-0003-2940-9670
Guihong TanDonnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3E1, Canada.
Gerald R FinkWhitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA 02142.
Brenda J AndrewsDonnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3E1, Canada; jing.hou@utoronto.ca brenda.andrews@utoronto.ca charlie.boone@utoronto.ca.
Charles BooneDonnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3E1, Canada; jing.hou@utoronto.ca brenda.andrews@utoronto.ca charlie.boone@utoronto.ca.

Funding

Mapping the reference genetic network of a eukaryotic cellR01HG005853 · NHGRI · UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO · PI ANDREWS, BRENDA JEAN, BOONE, CHARLES · 2010 to 2025
$7.6M
Canadian Institutes for Health Research FDN-143264Canadian Institutes for Health Research FDN-143265NHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG005853
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The phenotypic consequence of a given mutation can be influenced by the genetic background. For example, conditional gene essentiality occurs when the loss of function of a gene causes lethality in one genetic background but not another. Between two individual

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Genes, ModifierGenetic BackgroundAllelesBiosynthetic PathwaysCysteineGenes, EssentialGenome, FungalPhylogenySaccharomyces cerevisiaeCysteinebackground effectcomplex modifier interactionsconditional gene essentialityrare variants

Identifiers

PMID30804202
PMCPMC6421401

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