Research
Limited genomic predictability of complex trait evolution despite genotype-phenotype stability
Science · By J. A. Smiley-Rhodes, M. C. Bitter, S. Berardi, J. Beltz, D. A. Petrov & P. Schmidt ·
The Brief
- A study published in Science (Volume 394, Issue 6825, November 2026) reports limited genomic predictability of complex trait evolution.
- The paper finds that genotype-phenotype relationships remain stable despite the limited predictability of trait evolution from genomic data.
- Source material available here is limited to the article listing; the full findings are not provided.
Why it matters
It suggests that predicting how complex traits evolve from genomic data may be less reliable than assumed, which matters for evolutionary biology and genomics research.
Who’s affected
- evolutionary biologists
- genomics researchers
- #genomics
- #evolution
- #complex traits
- #genotype-phenotype
Science, Volume 394, Issue 6825 , November 2026.
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Limited genomic predictability of complex trait evolution despite genotype-phenotype stability