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Mapping genes for personality: is the saga sagging?

Molecular Psychiatry volume 3, pages 106–108 (1998)Cite this article

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The surge in molecular approaches to psychiatric disorders has spilled over into normal personality traits, with a flurry of interest, publicity, and hopeful prognostications. But conflicting results and methodological uncertainties challenge the notion that personality traits are genetically more tractable than complex psychiatric disease.

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Baron, M. Mapping genes for personality: is the saga sagging?. Mol Psychiatry 3, 106–108 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.mp.4000377

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