Usually means: Interaction between genes affecting phenotype.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. epistasis: Merriam-Webster
  2. epistasis: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. epistasis: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. epistasis: Collins English Dictionary
  5. epistasis: Vocabulary.com
  6. epistasis: Wordnik
  7. epistasis: Wiktionary
  8. epistasis: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. epistasis: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. epistasis: Dictionary.com
  11. Epistasis: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. epistasis: Rhymezone
  13. epistasis: FreeDictionary.org
  14. epistasis: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. epistasis: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. epistasis: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. epistasis: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Hypermedia Glossary Of Genetic Terms (No longer online)
  5. Microbial Genetics Glossary (No longer online)
  6. epistasis: Medical dictionary

Science (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Drug Discovery and Development (No longer online)
  3. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  4. DOE Genome Glossary (No longer online)
  5. On-Line Biology Book: GLOSSARY (No longer online)
  6. epistasis: Evolution Glossary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (epistasis)

noun:  (genetics) The modification of the expression of a gene by another unrelated one.

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