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Biology trumps statistics in the postgenomic era

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2012

Charles E. Glatt
Charles E. Glatt*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY 10065. ceg2004@med.cornell.edu
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Abstract

Charney discusses the growing realization in the postgenomic era that genomic biology deviates from Mendelian assumptions at the heart of genetic heritability and association studies. Given the complexity of genomic biology, how are we to identify meaningful genetic factors that contribute to behavioral? One response is to make genetic variants the focus of biological rather than statistical analyses of behavior.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 35 , Issue 5 , October 2012 , pp. 366 - 367
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012 

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