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What is important and novel in this study is that we have explained the overall excess of antagonistic epistasis by these compensatory mutations.
This correlation is fully consistent with the hypothesis that directional epistasis depends on the location of the reference sequence relative to other high-fitness genotypes.
By contrast, if a sequence is located at the periphery of a high-fitness cluster, or in a region of low density of high-fitness sequences, then this synergistic tendency is lessened, and we might even observe antagonistic epistasis for this sequence.
The localization of genes in complex genetic diseases is a challenging proposition, given that these disorders are likely to show significant locus heterogeneity, genetic epistasis, and incomplete penetrance, as well as environmental effects.
By definition, in the absence of epistasis, selection against a deleterious mutation is constant for all values of the fitness potential.