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To paraphrase Milo Minderbinder, the immortal character in Joseph Heller's novel Catch 22, “I lose money on every sale; it's the volume that keeps me in business.” There's a lesson for our field in ...

Forward- and reverse-genetic screens in model organisms have revealed that phenotypic traits are typically influenced by the activities of hundreds or thousands of genes and that, conversely, ...