Variability in gene expression underlies incomplete penetrance

Arjun Raj, Scott A. Rifkin, Erik Andersen & Alexander van Oudenaarden, Department of Physics, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA. Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA. Present addresses: Department of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA, (A.R.). Section of Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution, Division of Biology, University of California, San Diego 92093, USA (S.A.R.).Variability in gene expression underlies incomplete penetrance. Vol 463| 18 February 2010| doi:10.1038/nature08781