a suggestive trendp-value = 0.2117
Genetic redundancy could also be predicted to influence the phenotypic outcome of mutating single genes, and there is a suggestive trend consistent with this idea in our dataset (Fisher's exact test, p-value = 0.2117), with 6/7 non-Mendelian alleles classified as singletons in the maize genome (86%), compared to 14/25 singletons in genes harboring Mendelian alleles (56%) (Tables 1 and 2 ).