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Effects on gene expression and behavior of untagged short tandem repeats: the case of arginine vasopressin receptor 1a (AVPR1a) and externalizing behaviors.
Translational psychiatry - 27 Mar 2018
Landefeld Clare C, Hodgkinson Colin A, Spagnolo Primavera A, Marietta Cheryl A, Shen Pei-Hong, Sun Hui, Zhou Zhifeng, Lipska Barbara K, Goldman David
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Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of complex, heritable, behavioral phenotypes have yielded an incomplete accounting of the genetic influences. The identified loci explain only a portion of the observed heritability, and few of the loci have been shown to be functional. It is clear that current GWAS techniques overlook key components of phenotypically relevant genetic variation, either because of sample...
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