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Chunk #67 — 7.0 Recommendations to Advance Endophenotype Genetics — 7.1 Candidate genes are poor candidates for genetic discovery

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Endophenotype best practices.
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COMT and ADHD after all. Even worse, subsequent research indicates that the relationship between COMT and dopamine availability in PFC is weak. Now what does our researcher do? She has an interesting endophenotype finding based on a hypothesis that is no longer supported, and quite possibly several more that will suffer the same fate. Should this finding nevertheless be considered real? Is the field advanced by having published findings such as these?