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Microsatellite polymorphisms associated with human behavioural and psychological phenotypes including a gene-environment interaction.
BMC medical genetics - 3 Feb 2017
Bagshaw Andrew T M, Horwood L John, Fergusson David M, Gemmell Neil J, Kennedy Martin A
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The genetic and environmental influences on human personality and behaviour are a complex matter of ongoing debate. Accumulating evidence indicates that short tandem repeats (STRs) in regulatory regions are good candidates to explain heritability not accessed by genome-wide association studies. METHODS: We tested for associations between the genotypes of four selected repeats and 18 traits relating to...
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