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The idea that gene variants alone control an organism's traits is overly simple. A study of the effects of gene interactions on the outcomes of random variation in gene expression reveals the complex reality. See Letter p.250

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Figure 1: Noise regulons and gene expression.

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  1. Hana El-Samad is in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, USA.,

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  2. Jonathan S. Weissman is in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, USA. J.S.W. is also at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.,

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El-Samad, H., Weissman, J. Noise rules. Nature 480, 188–189 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/480188a

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