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May 07, 2012

In PLoS Genetics, an international team led by investigators at Georg-August-University Göttingen in Germany this week reports its use of whole-genome sequence data to predict quantitative trait phenotypes, like startle-induced locomotor behavior, in Drosophila melanogaster.

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