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Science 4 October 2002:
Vol. 298. no. 5591, pp. 71 - 72
DOI: 10.1126/science.1077582
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Perspectives

GENETICS:
Rethinking Behavior Genetics

Dean Hamer

Studies of the genetics of behavior have centered on identifying a single gene connected with a particular trait. However, as Dean Hamer explains in his Perspective, the complexity of human behavior necessitates more sophisticated approaches to unraveling the gene networks associated with particular behavioral traits.

The author is at the Laboratory of Biochemistry, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA. E-mail: hamerd{at}dc37a.nci.nih.gov

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