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Kinship asymmetries and the divided self

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 June 2008

David Haig
David Haig
Affiliation:
Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138. dhaig@oeb.harvard.edu
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Abstract

Imprinted genes are predicted to affect interactions among relatives. Therefore, variant alleles at imprinted loci are promising candidates for playing a causal role in disorders of social behavior. The effects of imprinted genes evolved in the context of patterns of asymmetric relatedness that existed within social groups of our ancestors.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 31 , Issue 3 , June 2008 , pp. 271 - 272
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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