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Science 19 July 2002:
Vol. 297. no. 5580, p. 319
DOI: 10.1126/science.297.5580.319a
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NEUROSCIENCE:
Gene's Effect Seen in Brain's Fear Response

Greg Miller

Demonstrating how genes influence behavioral traits has been much more difficult than tracing the lineage of physical characteristics. Now a study on page 400 has shown that people with different versions of a single gene have different patterns of brain activity in response to emotion-laden stimuli. The findings demonstrate that individual genes can contribute to how the brain interprets its environment, researchers say.

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