Opposite of antagonistic pleiotropy

From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Wed Apr 02 2003 - 00:17:48 MST

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    Just a quick question to the bright beings on this list: what is the
    opposite of antagonistic pleiotropy? AP is when a gene has a positive
    function in youth and a detrimental in old age. But what do you call a
    gene that does the same thing all the time, but this function is good in
    youth and bad in old age? Is it also called AP? It is the pleiotropy
    part that I am worried about, since the gene does not change behavior
    in any way.

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