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University of California, Irvine

Fetal hemoglobin expression is affected by loci interaction

Published in Elder Law Weekly, December 21st, 2005

According to recent research from the United States, fetal hemoglobin expression is affected by quantitative trait loci (QTL) interaction.

"The biological mechanisms controlling complex quantitative traits are likely to be affected by interactions between genetic factors, sometimes referred to as epistasis."

"The identification of interacting loci through genetic analyses faces many challenges, and few examples of replicated findings of interaction exist for humans and model system organisms," wrote C. Garner and colleagues, University of California, Irvine.

"The replication of an interaction, or the nonindependence, of two QTL...

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