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Behavioural genetics: finding genes that cause complex trait variation.

Christians JK, Keightley PD

Institute of Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JT, Scotland, UK.

Identifying genes that influence phenotypic variation is extremely difficult, especially when the allelic variants only have a small effect. A recent study has used a novel approach to identify a gene that affects the behaviour of mice.

Published 14 January 2005 in Curr Biol, 15(1): R19-21.
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