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ArticleGenetics2026

Phenotypic dominance emerges from activity fitness functions and molecular interactions.

Tushar Pal, Soham Dibyachintan, Angel F Cisneros, Christian R Landry

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Article in Genetics, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Tushar PalDépartement de Biochimie, de Microbiologie et de Bio-informatique, Faculté des Sciences et de Génie, Université Laval, Québec, QC G1V 0A6, Canada.ORCID 0009-0005-0006-9715
Soham DibyachintanDépartement de Biochimie, de Microbiologie et de Bio-informatique, Faculté des Sciences et de Génie, Université Laval, Québec, QC G1V 0A6, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-5247-9549
Angel F CisnerosDépartement de Biochimie, de Microbiologie et de Bio-informatique, Faculté des Sciences et de Génie, Université Laval, Québec, QC G1V 0A6, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-2030-3653
Christian R LandryDépartement de Biochimie, de Microbiologie et de Bio-informatique, Faculté des Sciences et de Génie, Université Laval, Québec, QC G1V 0A6, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-3028-6866

Funding

Agencia Mexicana para la Cooperación y el Desarrollo InternacionalCanada Research Chair in Cellular Systems and Synthetic BiologyCitizens of the World Graduate Scholarship from Université LavalFRQNTMerit Scholarship Program for Foreign Students (PBEEE)Ministère de l'Enseignement Supérieur du QuébecMitacs Globalink Research Internship fellowshipNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) CRL RGPIN-2020-04844PROTEO
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mendelian genetics provides us with a framework for studying allelic dominance relationships at a locus at the phenotypic level. These dominance relationships result from different molecular factors, including the mapping of molecular activity onto fitness. For homomeric proteins, physical interactions between alleles provide a mechanism by which 1 allele can have a dominant effect on the activity of the other. Here, we refer to the effect of these interactions as molecular dominance and examine how they determine total protein activity and contribute to phenotypic dominance. The relative impact of such molecular dominance effects depends on the proportion of subunits that heteromerize relative to those that form homomers. In addition, we show how the effect of physical interactions on phenotypic dominance depends on the function linking protein activity to fitness. Our results show the complex relationships between molecular and phenotypic dominance and highlight the fundamental difference in dominance landscapes for monomeric and homomeric proteins.

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Genes, DominantGenetic FitnessModels, GeneticPhenotypeAllelesProtein Multimerizationfitnessfitness functionshomomeric proteinsmolecular dominancemutational effectsphenotypic dominanceprotein interactions

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PMID41275424
PMCPMC13181401

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