Rare variants contribute disproportionately to quantitative trait variation in yeast
Joshua S. Bloom, James Boocock, Sebastian Treusch, Meru J. Sadhu, Laura Day, Holly Oates-Barker, Leonid Kruglyak
This study shows rare DNA variants have a larger impact on quantitative traits in yeast compared to common variants, due to their greater effect sizes and recent evolutionary origins.
eLife · Oct 24, 2019Peer-reviewedGenetics