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Genetic Pointillism versus Physiological Form
- Perspectives in Biology and Medicine
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 61, Number 4, Autumn 2018
- pp. 503-516
- 10.1353/pbm.2018.0060
- Article
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ABSTRACT:
Genomics has revealed that biological causation is subtler than a pointillist dream of essentially enumerable, additive precision predictability from constitutive DNA sequences. Instead, data have revealed a higher-dimension interactive genomic landscape, that is more fundamentally fluid than precision predictability requires. This raises epistemological and ontological issues that, if properly accepted, may help leverage new ideas.