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This doesn't make any sense to me. I tried to parse it several times (I'm a PhD computational biologist but no expert in this area)

Thinking in snps and haplotypes has been tripping up geneticists for years. Everything in genomics is highly nonlinear, not additive, and with massive amounts of long range interactions, feedback, and state.

Also organismal phenotypes are very different from molecular phenotypes- often organismal phenotypes are actually several underlying things grouped with a common label simply because they have similar features.



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