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Is this conjectural phenotypic dichotomy a plausible outcome of genomic imprinting?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 June 2008

Benjamin James Alexander Dickins ,
David William Dickins  and
Thomas Edmund Dickins
Benjamin James Alexander Dickins
Affiliation:
505 Wartik Laboratory, Center for Comparative Genomics and Bioinformatics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802
David William Dickins
Affiliation:
School of Psychology, University of Liverpool, ERB, Liverpool L69 7ZA, United Kingdom
Thomas Edmund Dickins
Affiliation:
School of Psychology, University of East London, London E15 4LZ, United Kingdom, and Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science, The London School of Economics, London WC2A 2AE, United Kingdom. ben@bx.psu.eduhttp://www.bendickins.net/dickins@liverpool.ac.ukhttp://www.liv.ac.uk/psychology/staff/ddickins.htmlt.dickins@uel.ac.ukhttp://www.uel.ac.uk/psychology/staff/tomdickins.htm
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Abstract

What is the status of the dichotomy proposed and the nosological validity of the contrasting pathologies described in the target article? How plausibly can dysregulated imprinting explain the array of features described, compared with other genetic models? We believe that considering alternative models is more likely to lead in the long term to the correct classification and explanation of the component behaviours.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 31 , Issue 3 , June 2008 , pp. 267 - 268
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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