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Heritability of fearful-anxious endophenotypes in infant rhesus macaques: a preliminary report.
Biological psychiatry - 15 Feb 2003
Williamson Douglas E, Coleman Kris, Bacanu Silviu-Alin, Devlin Bernie J, Rogers Jeffrey, Ryan Neal D, Cameron Judy L
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BACKGROUND: Research efforts to discover the genetic underpinnings of anxiety and depression is challenging because of the etiologic heterogeneity inherent to these disorders. These efforts might be aided by the study of related behavioral phenotypes in model organisms, such as monkeys. METHODS: Eighty-five rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) from the Oregon National Primate Research Center were drawn from a standard...
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