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Re:Just 11% of 53 cancer research papers were reproducible by epistasis on Thursday May 09, 2013 @09:58AM (#5680444)
There's 20,000 broad classes of variables (genes), and on average 12 variations of each of those variable (alternative splicing, post-translational modification, cellular localization, other variables we haven't yet discovered ). This series of two experiments and likely 2 years found associations between three proteins, which is a hook into system of great complexity, a way to start looking for more.

It is not "reproducible" yet it is incredibly valuable.

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