Barely Significant
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What is a neurological disease? Definition is not as simple as it might seem.

Brain · 2025 · PMC12677015 · PMID 40971910

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As David Dobbs 9 put it, the genome of most common conditions is infected by MAGOTS (many assorted genes of tiny significance), resulting in the identification of ‘a mass of barely significant genes explaining little’.

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