Epistasis

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Food Biotechnology

Interaction between genes at different loci, e.g. one gene suppresses the effect of another gene that is situated at a different locus. Dominance is associated with members of allelic pairs, whereas epistasis describes an interaction among products of non-alleles.

UN Food and Agriculture Organization — Glossary of Biotechnology for Food and Agriculture

Science› Biotechnology and Genetics

Human Genome

One gene interfers with or prevents the expression of another gene located at a different locus.

Human Genome Project — Human Genome Project