Genes Work in Networks

Professor David Anderson explains that individual genes do not exist in a vacuum. Rather, genes interact with one another as part of a network.

So, as far we know, no individual gene exists in a vacuum. All of the genes exist as part of a network of interactions with other genes and other proteins and it is this functioning in a network that gives the gene the particular role that it has.

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