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Maternal imprints

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SEARCHING for genes that affect human behaviour is fraught with difficulties, but a group led by David Skuse at the Institute of Child Health in London seems to have come close to identifying some by studying girls who suffer from a rare disease called Turner's syndrome. Their results have just been published in Nature.

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