Chunk #39 — Background — Description of clinical characteristics of KPD and how the family data were collected and classified

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Construction of the model for the Genetic Analysis Workshop 14 simulated data: genotype-phenotype relationships, gene interaction, linkage, association, disequilibrium, and ascertainment effects for a complex phenotype.

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3. Any humorous stories (jokes) induce strong psychological discomfort and feelings of being threatened, irrespective of quality, subject matter, and humorousness of the jokes themselves. This may arise from the feeling that the telling of jokes removes or sets apart the joke-teller from the imagined communal one-ness, or the discomfort may arise from the perceived social stigma of not understanding the humor (see below under "humor impairment").