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The Future of Behavioural Genetics. Quantitative Genetics More fine-grained cognitive abilities, personality traits, disorders, childhood origins Integrating.

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1 The Future of Behavioural Genetics

2 Quantitative Genetics More fine-grained cognitive abilities, personality traits, disorders, childhood origins Integrating genetics with neural imaging Development of new areas of health psychology and aging

3 Driving Forces Traditional questions: whether and how much genetic factors affect behaviour, disorders Now starting to get to the question of how

4 Molecular Genetics No longer looking for the gene for a trait Multiple genes (Quantitative trait loci), interactions, epistasis, epigenesis Pathways between genes and behaviour Bottom-up functional genomics meeting top-down behavioural genomics Genetic brain mapping

5 Nature, Nurture Now generally recognized to be nature and nurture New technologies and public awareness, e.g., home test kits, gene chips Societal effects –Government, law, ethnic and cultural organizations


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