epistasis
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the suppression of a gene by the effect of an unrelated gene
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A number of variations have been developed to attempt to improve performance of GAs on problems with a high degree of fitness epistasis, i.e. where the fitness of a solution consists of interacting subsets of its variables.
Genetic interactions ( epistasis ) can often confound simple interpretations of such "knock-out" or "knock-in" studies.
Genetic interactions ( epistasis ) can often confound simple interpretations of such " knockout " studies.