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The Genetics of Complex Behaviors: It Really Isn't That Simple

By Donald Zuhn, Kevin Noonan, Chris Singer, Sherri Oslick, and Jason Derry

By Kevin E. Noonan -- Early last week, the Journal of the American Medical Association published a study ("Interaction Between the Serotonin Transporter Gene (5-HTTLPR), Stressful Life Events, and Risk of Depression") by Neil Risch at the University of California, San Francisco and colleagues at the National Institutes of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins University, Yale University School of Medicine, the Rockefeller University, the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and Virginia Commonwealth University that showed no statistically-significant link between depression and the short HTT allele. The study provided a statistical meta-analysis of data accumulated for 14,250 participants from 14 separate...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on June 23, 2009 (boomark / email).