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MONITOR ON PSYCHOLOGY Volume 31, No. 2, February 2000 WANTED: Behavioral researchers with a penchant for genetics Powerful genetic techniques are helping researchers tease apart key aspects of behavior. But a shortage of behavioral experts may set the field back. BY BETH AZAR Monitor staff Flip through the pages of today's most prestigious scientific journals and you're likely to find study after study that used one of several powerful new genetic techniques to link a gene to a behavior or personality trait, from parenting to promiscuity to drug use. These transgenic and knockout models allow researchers to add or delete entire genes from animals, most often the mouse. The resulting studies are grabbing newspaper headlines, announcing the discovery of an "anxiety gene" or the "genetic root for aggression." Full text: http://www.apa.org/monitor/genetics.html (from Kabai Péter: peter.kabai@gmail.com) |
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