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Chunk #20 — 4. Modeling Candidate Genes with Knockout (KO) Mice

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Implications of genome wide association studies for addiction: are our a priori assumptions all wrong?
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done, perhaps because this was not the intended goal of most studies. One problem, overall, with each genetic manipulation, particularly if heterozygous mice are to be studied, is whether a single manipulation can produce a large enough effect to be detectable. If addiction is highly polygenic with each genetic difference contributing only a small amount of the overall variance, this may be a significant problem.