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Human-mouse quantitative trait locus concordance and the dissection of a human neuroticism locus.
Biological psychiatry - 1 May 2008
Fullerton Janice M, Willis-Owen Saffron A G, Yalcin Binnaz, Shifman Sagiv, Copley Richard R, Miller Susette R, Bhomra Amarjit, Davidson Stuart, Oliver Peter L, Mott Richard, Flint Jonathan
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BACKGROUND: Exploiting synteny between mouse and human disease loci has been proposed as a cost-effective method for the identification of human susceptibility genes. Here we explore its utility in an analysis of a human personality trait, neuroticism, which can be modeled in mice by tests of emotionality. We investigated a mouse emotionality locus on chromosome 1 that contains no annotated genes but abuts four...
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