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Your link lost me at the first sentence. But the word "phenotype" reminded me of this 11 minute Khan Academy video. Maybe I'm just repeating the same thing. But I thought Sal's video was worth sharing and easily digestible.

https://www.khanacademy.org/science/healthcare-and-medicine/...

tl;dr

For whatever reason, Breast Cancer prefers to metastasize bone (which is a phenotype). Something as simple as giving cured Breast Cancer victims a calcium supplement can significantly reduce remission. Phenotypes >= Genotypes?

Scientific article cited in comment section:

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa0806285



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