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The ade2 mutation was partially epistatic to the effect of hnt2 disruption on ApppN accumulation.
However, assuming that gene duplications primarily evolve under purifying selection, at least soon after duplication, the observed acceleration of evolution may be explained by epistatic interaction between gene copies.
If stroke susceptibility is attributable to several loci, the risk becomes dependent upon the nature of the contributions (additive or epistatic), and the loci are more difficult to identify.
In the wing in and fy are epistatic to mutations in fz , dishevelled ( dsh ), prickle ( pk ), Van Gogh ( Vang ) (aka strabismus ) and starry night ( stan ) (aka flamingo ) [ 5 21 ] . This was also the case in the arista (Table 1).
Using whole bacteria and viruses, several studies have sought to measure the mutational decay function for fitness and the overall direction of epistatic interactions [ 25 26 27 28 56 ] . Only one of these studies found net synergistic interactions [ 56 ] . Several other studies with bacteria and viruses have documented widespread compensatory mutations [ 57 58 59 ] , although these studies all used selection to find compensatory mutations rather than directly estimating their frequency.