This article, written by a number of leading behavior geneticists, describes what the field of behavior genetics is like, including comments on traditional methods, and on innovative methods that recently have been developed. (
http://www.faseb.org/genetics/ashg/policy/pol-28.htm
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Extensive links to web sites with information about heredity, including U.S. and international research programs. (
http://www.ornl.gov/TechResources/Human_Genome/vl.html
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This website provides information about a number of journal articles that describe research using the twin study method. (
http://www.ists.qimr.edu.au/journal.html
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This PDF file offered online is a reprint of the article "Identifying Loci for Behavioral Traits Using Genome-Tagged Mice" published originally in the Journal of Neuroscience Research 74:562—569 (2003). Authored by a number of professors and researchers at UCLA, this article is an excellent window onto how the process by which original research is conceptualized, conducted, and then published. (
http://www.pharmacology.ucla.edu/smithlab/publications_files/pdf/liu_JNR_2003.pdf
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