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A straw man's neogenome

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2012

Oscar Vilarroya
Oscar Vilarroya*
Affiliation:
Unitat de Recerca en Neurociència Cognitiva, Departament de Psiquiatria i Medicina Legal, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Fundació IMIM, C/ Doctor Aiguader, 88, 08003 Barcelona, Spain. oscar.vilarroya@uab.cat
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Abstract

The neogenome has indeed changed how to understand the relationship between genotype and phenotype. However, this does not imply a paradigm shift, but simply a normal development of a young science. Charney creates a straw man out of the myth of an immutable genetics, and conveys the wrong idea that heritability studies and gene association studies are no longer valid.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 35 , Issue 5 , October 2012 , pp. 380 - 381
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012 

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