Modifier genetics in neuropsychiatric disease: challenges and opportunities

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Elizabeth K Ruzzo¹, Andrea L Pappas² and David B Goldstein¹^*

¹ Center for Human Genome Variation, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, 27708, USA

² Department of Neurobiology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, 27708, USA

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Genome Biology 2012, 13:150 doi:10.1186/gb-2012-13-3-150

Published: 28 March 2012

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